Re: How to ban someone from running a program

[Hella <redhat echeeba com>]

In my experience these process accounting and quota systems are 
extremely cludgy and create a very large overhead for the administrators 
and are generally not worth the effort. I would suggest a wrapper script 
or even a simple company policy detailing what hours certain programs 
can be run, or maybe even get this user a dedicated system is he/she is 
important enough. :P

-CC

Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
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> > 	abusername	hard	nproc		2
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> 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.