On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:07, Asier Goikoetxea Yanci wrote: > Thanks James, although it was not exactly what I was looking for (I wanted to > assign a limit to a single folder, not to the whole system), your suggestion > drived me to find out the C function 'setrlimit', with which I can assign a > maximum numbers of bytes that can take each file created by a program after > calling this function. > > Thanks again, > > Asier
Cool, Long as your problem is solved.. I'll grin peacefully over in my corner. James > > On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 7:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Asier, > > > > The command you may want is ulimit. This will limit the size of a > > specific file and since in Linux everything is a file it has affect on > > directories as well. (Although not as fine tuned.) The man page for > > Ulimite bytes and I haven't found a good ref on how to use it here. > > Basically you enter a size in k so for a 2 meg limit you would do > > > > ulimit 2048 > > > > and now you can't create a file larger than 2 megs. Since I usually use > > things the way they are (unlimited) I do it that way. Downside. This > > affects all users on the box. All file systems etc. For something > > finer grained I'm not sure. > > > > James > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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