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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:42:35 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Allen Edwards <aedwards@hiqinternet.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Newbie Post - Limiting processes
Message-ID:  <20010125214235.F1122@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <xzp8znzto93.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:39:36PM %2B0100
References:  <NCBBKJBPKLMFELAPAEHGAEMCCCAA.aedwards@hiqinternet.com> <xzp8znzto93.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:39:36PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Allen Edwards" <aedwards@hiqinternet.com> writes:
> > They sell based on HDD space as well as background processes.
> 
> Without reading their site, I imagine that what they mean by
> "background processes" are processes that run while the user is not
> logged in (usually these are IRC proxies or various kinds of file
> transfer clients).

I've seen a shell provider or five that considers a process to be
a background process when it does not have a controlling tty.
It's in such cases that people tend to use the screen workaround
I mentioned in another mail in this thread.

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
This sentence contradicts itself - or rather - well, no, actually it doesn't!


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