Settling Limits with ulimit
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>> Hey, Cybrarians. Welcome back to
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the Linux plus course here in Cybrary.
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I'm your instructor, Rob Goelz.
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In today's lesson, we're going to cover
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setting limits with ulimit.
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Upon completion of today's lesson,
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you're going to be able to understand the purpose of
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the ulimit command and explain how
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ulimit can be used to restrict user accounts.
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Each user on a system is going to consume resources,
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whether it be CPU or memory or file space,
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>> and without a guard rail on the system,
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>> it's really easy for a user to overload the system.
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We have the ulimit command
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which allows us to restrict user
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access to system resources.
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Now there are a huge number of
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options that are available to ulimit,
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but I find a few to be the most useful options around.
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For example, we could do ulimit -a to see
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the limits that are set on the current user account.
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We could use ulimit -f to
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set the limit on the size of files created.
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If we do the -l option,
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it sets the maximum memory
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that can be locked by the user.
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So l for locked.
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>> ulimit -t sets
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>> the maximum CPU time that a user is allowed.
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Now this is just something
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>> that's configured on the fly.
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>> If we want to make these options permanent,
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they need to be placed in a configuration file.
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That could be the user configuration file,
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which would be in the user home directories, so ~/,
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>> it can be bashrc or profile,
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>> or it could be in the global configuration files,
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>> which are located at /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile.
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>> But with that, we reached into this lesson,
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>> and in this lesson, we covered the
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>> purpose of the ulimit command.
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>> Then we talked about how ulimit can
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be used to restrict user accounts.
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Thanks so much for being here,
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>> and I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson.
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