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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at!not-for-mail From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Setting process limits Date: 1 Apr 1993 13:10:54 +0200 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1peijuINN2te@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> References: <1993Mar31.195938.12256@mcs.kent.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7] In article <1993Mar31.195938.12256@mcs.kent.edu> Greg "TwoTone" Spiegelberg (gspiegel@mcs.kent.edu) wrote: > I've just realized that some people on our 386bsd machine here love to > abuse the thing and they also have the tendency to bring it down every > now and then. > > So I was wondering, where & when do I set the variables such as cputime, > memoryuse, stacksize, etc...? > > Or is there a better way around this? > If you want to do this globally for all user processes, wait for my new init program (RSN). If you want to do this for individual users, write a simple C program that sets the limits and the execs /bin/csh (or whatever), and install this as the user's login shell. Christoph