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.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd April 14, 2011 29.Dt RCTL.CONF 5 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm rctl.conf 33.Nd resource limits database defaults 34.Sh DESCRIPTION 35The 36.Pa /etc/rctl.conf 37file is read in when the system goes into multi-user mode to set default 38contents of the RCTL database. 39The 40.Pa /etc/rctl.conf 41is in the format of the 42.Xr rctl 8 43command, i.e.\& 44.Bd -literal -offset indent 45subject:subject-id:resource:action=amount/per 46.Ed 47.Pp 48Comments are denoted by a 49.Dq # 50at the beginning of a line. 51Comments can also exist at the end of a line, 52as seen in the 53.Sx EXAMPLES 54section, below. 55.Sh FILES 56.Bl -tag -width /etc/rctl.conf -compact 57.It Pa /etc/rctl.conf 58Initial settings for 59.Xr rctl 8 . 60.El 61.Sh EXAMPLES 62To limit the number of processes for users in login class "testing", 63use a rule like 64.Bd -literal -offset indent 65# Resource limits for the "testing" class. 66loginclass:testing:nproc:deny=100/user # At most 100 processes per user 67.Ed 68.Sh SEE ALSO 69.Xr rctl 8 70.Sh HISTORY 71The 72.Nm 73file appeared in 74.Fx 9.0 . 75