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From: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Limiting the number of user processes ?
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Date: 26 Jan 91 18:49:09 GMT
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In article <25720@adm.brl.mil>, jewell@tower-unix.city-poly.ac.uk (Tony Jewell) writes:
>
> Is there an easy way (or not so easy way) that we can limit the number of
> processes a user can run, in the same way that VMS can ?
> 
> We are running Sun/OS 4.0.3

I don't know if Sun/OS has this configuration variable or not, but
under DG/UX you can set the kernel configuration variable MAXUP to
the number of processes that each user will be allowed to run
simultaneously.  That should do the trick if Sun/OS supports it or has
something similar.  Good luck.

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Greg Hunt                        Internet: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com
DG/UX Kernel Development         UUCP:     {world}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!hunt
Data General Corporation
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA  These opinions are mine, not DG's.