gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:20:08 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] System Resource 

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:01:07PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> something like this (Bourne syntax, presuming uid 1000 is the user
> to be limited to 1024 seconds of CPU time):
> 
> if [ x"id -u" = x"1000" ]; then
> 	ulimit -t 1024
> fi

Er, maybe not.

The documented behavior of ulimit shell functions is that only the
super-user can increase ulimit values, but I just lowered and then
increased my own as a regular user.

I'm sure I knew the right way to do this at some point...

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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