Am So, den 15.08.2004 schrieb Sven Dzepina um 11:25: > I have many users working on a web server. > They executes among other things many scripts like php, perl or python... > > Some of them are strange, because they program a endless loop so they > use more than 99 % of CPU -> That's pretty bad for the server ;-) Common problem with those kind of "coders". > For that time is the server unusable. I have always to login on Server > via ssh and kill it. > > You understand that I am not able to watch my servers 24 h a day. > > Has Fedora Core 1 or Core 2 a function to manage that ? If a users of > group is executing longer than 10 seconds, kill it with kill -9 or > something like that. One basic solution is to use settings in /etc/security/limits.conf, to control and limit the usage of system resources. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp Serendipity 16:23:49 up 11 days, 9:51, load average: 0.69, 0.42, 0.30