Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:45:43 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: philip.reynolds@rfc-networks.ie, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: and daemons ? [was Re: Keeping a large shellbox stable and secure] Message-ID: <200304242045.43432.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <20030424113630.GA21831@rfc-networks.ie> References: <001901c309ee$36029070$c601a8c0@oxygen> <20030424113630.GA21831@rfc-networks.ie>
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Le Thursday 24 April 2003 13:36, Philip Reynolds a écrit : > > The above program, for instance, should stop after a few seconds > with an error (something equivalent to resources unavailable) > > Some sample settings would be: > [example with login.conf] > Hello, login.conf is quite interesting with *interactive* users, but I'm wondering if login.conf could also be used to constrain long-running processes, such as daemons (you may imagine a list ...) in the case of long-runnning-processes, a cap on CPU run time seems difficult to use : either the cap is too low and the daemon is stopped when it should not or the cap is too high, and you may be DOS'ed by a runaway process :-( obviously, all other parameters can be usefully limited. has someone played with daemons and resource limits of login.conf ? TfH
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