From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 19:46:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB9114D76 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:46:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA43E2 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 04:46:12 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 394; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:49:41 +1100 Message-ID: <38698374.C13A2B4B@S1.com> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:43:48 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Addy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: process limits for non-tty processes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Cliff, if you're using a Bourne-like shell (sh, bash, zsh, &c.) you can use "ulimit" - see 'man bash' and search for 'ulimit' - I think this will help you do what you want. hth, |-| > > How can I set up resource limits for processes that are not being run from > a telnet sessions, e.g. keep cgi scripts from using more than X megs of > memory or creating coredumps? login.conf works great if youre logged in, > but has no effect on cgi scripts. > > Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message