Re: Limiting resources in cron jobs

2009-05-22 Thread Dan
exec the script with softlimit from daemontools (very easy to use), or exec with ulimit in the shell. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

Re: Limiting resources in cron jobs

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 16:18:28 Kirk Strauser wrote: > On May 20, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Check with top what the CPU time is, it's not the same as the wall > > clock. > > Give me *some* credit. :-) Sorry, haven't you heard? Financial crisis ;) Are you sure cron respects login.con

Re: Limiting resources in cron jobs

2009-05-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
On May 20, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Check with top what the CPU time is, it's not the same as the wall clock. Give me *some* credit. :-) -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: Limiting resources in cron jobs

2009-05-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 16 May 2009 19:27:22 Kirk Strauser wrote: > www:\ > > :cputime=300:\ > :tc=default: > > I've run "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf" to make that live. Then, I used > vipw to change www's class: > > www:*:80:80:www:0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin > > H

Limiting resources in cron jobs

2009-05-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have a jail where the www user runs hourly cron jobs. On rare occasion, these jobs get stuck in a seemingly infinite CPU loop - a Python script calls Ghostscript and that child process never returns - and I have to manually kill them. I'd like to use login.conf to set resource limits so