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tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months agoHuh. I never made that connection before. I always thought ulimit was to prevent excessive disk writes or something
Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months agoHuh. I never made that connection before. I always thought ulimit was to prevent excessive disk writes or something
brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
ulimit -H -u 10will (hard)limit the current process (the shell) to 10 subprocesses. You can also use it to limit the number of open files etc.To globally configure that for a user/group you’d use
/etc/security/limits.confinstead.If you want to prevent users from filling up the disk, take a look into quota.