How to limit background processes for users in FC3

[Les Mikesell]

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.

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