Limiting resources in cron jobs

[Mel Flynn]

On Saturday 16 May 2009 19:27:22 Kirk Strauser wrote:

> www:\
>
>          :cputime=300:\
>          :tc=default:
>
> I've run "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf" to make that live.  Then, I used
> vipw to change www's class:
>
> www:*:80:80:www:0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
>
> However, I can trigger the error condition and watch the child
> Ghostscript process run for 6-7 minutes before I kill it.

Check with top what the CPU time is, it's not the same as the wall clock.
-- 
Mel