1.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Edward Tomasz Napierala 2.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org> 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.Dd October 6, 2023 27.Dt RCTL.CONF 5 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm rctl.conf 31.Nd resource limits database defaults 32.Sh DESCRIPTION 33The 34.Pa /etc/rctl.conf 35file is read in when the system goes into multi-user mode to set default 36contents of the RCTL database. 37The 38.Pa /etc/rctl.conf 39is in the format of the 40.Xr rctl 8 41command, i.e.\& 42.Bd -literal -offset indent 43subject:subject-id:resource:action=amount/per 44.Ed 45.Pp 46Comments are denoted by a 47.Dq # 48at the beginning of a line. 49Comments can also exist at the end of a line, 50as seen in the 51.Sx EXAMPLES 52section, below. 53.Sh FILES 54.Bl -tag -width /etc/rctl.conf -compact 55.It Pa /etc/rctl.conf 56Initial settings for 57.Xr rctl 8 . 58.El 59.Sh EXAMPLES 60To limit the number of processes for users in login class "testing", 61use a rule like 62.Bd -literal -offset indent 63# Resource limits for the "testing" class. 64loginclass:testing:maxproc:deny=100/user # At most 100 processes per user 65.Ed 66.Sh SEE ALSO 67.Xr rctl 8 68.Sh HISTORY 69The 70.Nm 71file appeared in 72.Fx 9.0 . 73