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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to set a CPU-limit to user-processes? Date: 28 Sep 1996 18:46:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <52jrpi$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <529h3h$2bc@fstgal00.tu-graz.ac.at> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Martin Kammerhofer) wrote: > Recently I see processes (mostly 'pine') accumulating CPU-time. I've > heard there's a way to set a CPU-time limit to user processes. > How do I implement this? `limit cputime' in [t]csh. `ulimit -t' in Bourne-alike shells, although FreeBSD's /bin/sh didn't grok `ulimit' before 2.2-someday-current or 2.1.5. Of course, you can also fix the bug in Pine. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)