how to limit resources in Linux

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hi ,

is there any way so that whenver any process takes more than 5 minutes , then system automatically kills the process in the unix shell account

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If you add the following line of code to your ~/.bash_profile

export TMOUT=60*5

Your bash shell will terminate after 5 minutes have passed if you weren't interacting with the shell.

If you only to control the duration where a given process is allowed to run...please this link
http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/27234-starting-processes-timeout.html

Cheers
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