On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 03:13, Danny Terweij wrote: > How to limit bg processes for users? > > So if a limit is set to 3 for a user and he wants to start the 4th bg > process, then it will not be started or killed by a cronjob script. >From the system's perspective there is no difference between a background and foreground job - they just have stdio connected to different things. You have to base limits on total resource usage. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx