RFC2057 Source Directed Access Control on the Internet. [c. 1996/11/01]

RFC1346 Resource Allocation, Control, and Accounting for the Use of Network Resources. [c. 1992/06/01]

RFC1272 Internet Accounting: Background. [ 1991/11/01]

pac(8) - printer/plotter accounting information {oss}

sa(8) - print system accounting statistics {oss}

quota(1) - display disk usage and limits {oss}

ac(8) - connect time accounting {oss}

accton(8) - enable/disable system accounting {oss}

quot(8) - display disk space occupied by each user {oss}

quotacheck(8) - filesystem quota consistency checker {oss}

quotaon quotaoff(8) - turn filesystem quotas on and off {oss}

edquota(8) - edit user quotas {oss}

renice(8) - alter priority of running processes {oss}

clobberd-isp - Clobberd is a daemon that monitors user activity, and meters resources such as Time, and Network activity. clobberd will run on a single host, and monitor users by scanning the utmp file. Users are able to view their stats via a web page, and the remot {(L)GPL}

idled-1.16_1 - A daemon that logs out idle users and those users hogging resources

setquota-0.1 - Command line quota tools.

timelimit-1.0.b3 - Limit the absolute execution time of a process

with - Resource allocation program {oss}

safe - Limit a program's execution time {oss}

The Monitor - Small file monitoring program {x,GPL}

ipac - Linux IP accounting package {GPL}

KTimeMon - Yet another system usage monitor for KDE, with nifty features. {x,GPL}

useripacct - Per user IP accounting program/kernel extension {GPL}

Clobberd - Monitors users. used by ISP's to metre resources {GPL}

ard - auto renice daemon {freely distributable}

Applications and Utilities

acct (2) - enable or disable process accounting {oss}

getrlimit setrlimit (2) - control maximum system resource consumption {oss}

getrusage (2) - get information about resource utilization {oss}

i386_get_ioperm i386_set_ioperm (2) - manage i386 per-process I/O permission bitmap {oss}

i386_iopl (2) - change the i386 I/O privilege level {oss}

quotactl (2) - manipulate filesystem quotas {oss}

rfork (2) - manipulate process resources {oss}

vlimit (3) - control maximum system resource consumption {oss}

nice (3) - set program scheduling priority {oss}

getpriority setpriority (2) - get/set program scheduling priority {oss}

times (3) - process times {oss}

vtimes (3) - get information about resource utilization {oss}

Quota - Utilities for manipulating disk quotas. [Perl] {oss}

Libraries and Functions

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See also: Process Creation and Control - covers child process control (like sending signals), renice, fork, et al

See also: Running Process Information - Getting information on running processes.

Up to Execution

Up to Process Limits - Permission and access restriction (files, resources, etc)

Process Limits: File Access - Process Limits on File access (permissions, ownership, modes, et al)

Process Limits: Identity - Process ownership and Identity