From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 8: 5:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10A5137B423 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6874 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2000 15:05:25 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 27 Sep 2000 15:05:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 7861 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2000 15:05:19 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 27 Sep 2000 15:05:19 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:04:28 +0100 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: 'Chris McCoy' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Question Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:59:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Check out /etc/login.conf. This file contains profile definitions to enable an administrator to set various resource limits for groups of users. In particular, the line you want is: :maxproc=infinity: More details can be found with man 5 login.conf Although 2 processes is not very many - AFAIK, it will cause problems even reading startup files.... Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris McCoy [mailto:chris@advance-data.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 6:54 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Question > > > is there a util to limit the amount of processes a user is > aloud to use. say > if i wanna give them an account with only 2 processes. > > -- > +-----------------------------------^------------------------- > ----------+ > | Chris McCoy -/- email: chris@advance-data.com > +-----------------------------------^------------------------- > ----------+ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message