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From: Omachonu Ogali <missnglnk@informationwave.net>
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Subject: Re: background processes
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:08:05AM -0400, Operations <Jon Douglas> wrote:
> How does one limit the amount of background proc's a user is aloud?
> 
> Say you are allowing ten. Perosn tries to execut 11 but it won't let him
> 
> How do you do this?

Take a look at the login.conf(5) man page and /etc/login.conf, they
contain instructions and examples (respectively) for performing this
and other user resource limiting operations.
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