Re: kill -9 again

Posted in 1994

mark@houston.com.hk — Tue, 03 May 94 09:46:49 EST — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

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. The opinions stated are not necessarily those of the Houston BBS, or Houston Crest, or of the person stating them. Everything is relative.