Re: kill -9 again

Posted in 1994

Simon David — 4 May 1994 16:47:32 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article 21961EACUYQJBWCQMCQ@houston.com.hk, mark@houston.com.hk writes: > >IC>Alan Popiel (alan@po.den.mmc.com) wrote: >IC>: It sounds like you need to take kill out of its normal place in the >IC>: library (/bin/kill on my Sun running OS 4.1.3) and place it somewhere >IC>: that only selected folks can get to. > >IC>I suppose that if you're only trying to stop Joe Average shooting down >IC>the turbo processes then you'll be OK replacing /bin/kill with a script >IC>that does some checking first. > >Yeah. The only way to kill then is to write a small program to use the >system "kill" call. If they do that, the users are not just dumb, >they're actively trying to crash the system. > >If the purpose is just to stop casual "informed" users from crashing >your dbms, that seems the best way. Not for anyone running a sensible shell ;-) simond@koetsu [~] :-] type kill kill is a shell builtin What to do now...? Simon