Re: kill -9 again

->From: mreed@news.hcia.com (Michael T. Reed) ->Subject: kill -9 again ->Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 14:17:17 GMT ->Reply-To: mreed@news.hcia.com (Michael T. Reed) ->Organization: HCIA, Inc. -> ->Thanks for all the responses to my kill -9 (on an sqlturbo) question. -> ->Most of us know that tbmode -z (and -Z) are better alternatives and than ->kill -9 should be avoided , or even substituted with kill -13 or -15, etc. -> ->The **real** problem that we want to solve is the "end user" who ->is dangerous enough with Unix to know that kill -9 will do the trick. -> ->Regardless of how often one preaches about not using kill -9, there ->is always the occasional user (or programmer) that forgets or decides ->to do it anyway, causing the Online engine to crash most of the time. -> ->We want to trap kill -9 and disallow it. We've played around with ->scripts and paths, but we've run into the OS having problems then. -> ->I was just hoping that there has been some work done already by someone ->that cleverly takes care of this. I guess we'll have to keep trying. -> ->Thanks. -> Mike, It sounds like you need to take kill out of its normal place in the library (/bin/kill on my Sun running OS 4.1.3) and place it somewhere that only selected folks can get to. This is somewhat drastic, but if the users can't use kill, then they can't abuse kill. Regards, Alan ___________________________ ______________________| R. Alan Popiel |__________________________ \\ Internet: | Martin Marietta, SLS | / \\ alan@den.mmc.com | P.O. Box 179, M/S 3810 | Std disclaimers apply. / )Voice: | Denver, CO 80201-0179 USA | ( / 303-977-9998 |___________________________| (But you knew that!) \\ /________________________) (____________________________\\