From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 20:12:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [208.11.142.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0E914D4C for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 20:12:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA09306; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:12:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:12:10 -0500 (EST) From: Cliff Addy To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: process limits for non-tty processes In-Reply-To: <38698374.C13A2B4B@S1.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > 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. I don't think so, as I noted I'm trying to limit resources for programs *not* being run from a shell. From reading the man page, ulimit only limits what you're running as commands from the shell. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message