On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:29:33PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > I am trying to set up a server, and I would like to know about some of > the tools I should be using for the following tasks: > > Bandwidth monitoring/restriction on a per-user basis > > Traffic (total data transfered per time unit) monitoring/restriction on > a per-user basis > > CPU & RAM would also be nice, but I assume linux won't let a user > totally take over the machine's resources with default options.
No, see /etc/security/limits.conf for doing this. I've managed to crash my Linux box by using up all the memory and swap (no limits enforced). So, be careful. > port forwarding (I tried this one already, but had a tough time, perhaps > just direction to some good tools or docs). > > I also plan to set up disk quotas (as you may have guessed), but from > the documnetation it looks straightforward. > > I would appreciate any advice. I am refering to Debian 2.2. I'll let others comment on the rest. -- Eric G. Miller <[email protected]>
