lshell8

Usage

Overview

LShell allows a system administrator to easily set and maintain per-user limits on CPU time, number of processes, virtual memory usage, and open files. A master file (/etc/lshell.conf) contains a default entry and overriding entries for specific users.

/etc/lshell.conf

This file contains the entries for the resource limits. Each line consists of a username optionally followed by resource limits. If resource limits are present, they may be followed by a comment.

The last line is the default entry and can contain any name that does not represent a user on the system. Default is typically used.

If there is no second field, no limits are imposed on that user. Otherwise, the second field consists of a letter identifying the resource to be limited and a number specifying the limit. Multiple limits are simply concatenated together. If multiple entries appear for the same user, the first is used.

Valid resource limiters are F followed by the number of file descriptors, P followed by the number of processes, C followed by the maximum CPU time in minutes, and D followed by the in-memory data limit in Megabytes.

Reasonable limits for typical users are C60D20F96P28

Version

lshell version 2.01, March 11, 1995.

Warnings

The user name in /etc/lshell.conf must exactly match (case included) the entry in /etc/passwd.