Re: kill -9 again

->From: simond@informix.com (Simon David) ->Subject: Re: kill -9 again ->Date: 4 May 1994 16:47:32 GMT ->Reply-To: simond@informix.com -> ->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 -> Simon, You are the second person to report that kill is part of the shell on your system. What shell (and Unix variant, I guess) are you running? I use csh under Sun OS 4.1.3, and on my system kill is in library /bin, as I reported. For that matter, my system does not have a `type' command. Closest thing seems to be the `file' command: 67 % file /bin/kill /bin/kill: sparc pure dynamically linked executable 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!) \\ /________________________) (____________________________\\