Re: 4GL replacement for isql menus

Ian Goddard wrote: > > Dirk Schmidtpott wrote: > > > > Ian Goddard wrote: > > > > > > I need to replace the isql menus with something which will prevent the > > > users from shelling out with "!". > > > > > > My immediate thought was to write a 4GL program to look something like > > > the original and to use sysmenus and sysmenuitems. The next thought, > > > about a millisecond later was to save myself a little time and trouble > > > and see if I could find one on the net. I've been looking for a little > > > while with no success. Does anyone know of such a thing out there? > > > > > > TIA [SNIP] > > export SHELL=/dev/null > > > > in the .profile of this particular user. [SNIP] > Unfortunately it also seems to stop the menu system running any external > programs. This means that you're restricted to Ace and Perform - and the > users can shell out of Perform - which defeats the object. > > Ian Well, Lets rethink the problem. You want to stop the nasty user from shelling out of an application. Putting it in his/her .profile means that besides having the above mentioned side effect, the user could always comment it out and not have to bother with it. A better way, is to have the user run a shell script which exports that shell variable in a child, then calls your Informix program. Does this solve your problem, or am I missing something? -Mikey