Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:21:42 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Operations <Jon Douglas>" <jdouglas@cjhost.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bg's Message-ID: <15144.51318.586434.911250@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <25494286@toto.iv>
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"Operations <Jon Douglas>" <jdouglas@cjhost.com> types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't do this on the FreeBSD lists. Just send the question in flat text, not HTML, and most especially not both. > ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C0F427.F1E82A40 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > How do you limit the amount of bg's back ground process for a user? > > Is this done in /etc/login.conf? > > I know you can control max processes but I want to control just the bg's > > How is this done? Since the system doesn't know whether a process is bg or not - some shells will let you move processes from the background to the foreground - the system can't do that for you. If you describe the reason you want to impose this restriction, we might be able to suggest alternative solutions. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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