[ale] user limits

[Jim Kinney]

This is weird. Pam can block users from chewing up too many resources
but where does it output it's signaling? I can set a low limit on
noprocs and login and get a "Resource Temporarily Unavailable" message
on the console. But that's useless if it's a mouse click on a launcher
icon...

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 19:23 +0000, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> For what it's worth, this behavior is native to OpenVMS...it's just too bad that the OS is limited to Itanium and Itanium's future is...iffy.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> > xmessage is the way to do it. Now to find a daemon that can do the deed
> > and deliver an intelligent message....
> > 
> > or write one which is looking like the real solution. Need to find
> > _where_ the soft limit signal is written (/var/log/message? STDOUT?)
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 13:55 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > > Launch everything via a script that checks the limit and then issues
> > > an xmessage[1]?
> > > 
> > > [1] -- http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/xmessage/
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > When a system uses pam, the file (typically) /etc/security/limits.conf
> > > > can control limits for things like resident set size, stack size, number
> > > > processes, login count, etc.
> > > >
> > > > What happens when a user hits a soft limit? A hard limit means the
> > > > operation is not completed and/or fails.
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking for a way to notify users that they are pushing their luck
> > > > opening another (eg - firefox) application as they are running out of
> > > > ram.
> > > >
> > > > Jim Kinney
> > > >
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