on 7-18-2008 4:24 AM Dr R L Oswald spake the following:

What we would like to do on a server running CENTOS 4.6 is to restrict max cpu time for most interactive users but ensure that processes for system users such as root & special userids that provide services are kept as unlimited.

The documentation for limits.conf is not very extensive but I think I am correct in assuming that resource limits specified in limits.conf only apply to processes that *login* to a system, rather than those kicked off at boot time as daemons?

There does not seem to be any obvious way of specifying an unlimited value for a resource unlike the ulimit command ? Does anyone know a way of specifying unlimited in limits.conf ?

Any suggestions

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