Re: How to ban someone from running a program

["Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam codegnome org>]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

> 	abusername	hard	nproc		2

This limit may need to be higher. Some quick poking around on my system 
shows that a process limit lower than about 10-15 *above* the desired 
amount will prevent things from running properly. I can't seem to find any 
documentation as to why this is, though.

If I have 41 processes running, and I set a ulimit in a single xterm, any 
value below 55 will prevent ls from running. If anyone can shed some light 
into this behavior, I'd sure appreciate it.

In the meantime, you may want to just stick with the priority limit. 

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