Re: kill -9 again

Posted in 1994

Chris Davies — Fri, 29 Apr 1994 11:05:30 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Alan Popiel (alan@po.den.mmc.com) wrote: : 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. chrisd@poohbear[3]% which kill kill: shell built-in command. This is for csh (and tcsh). Unfortunately. : This is somewhat drastic, but : if the users can't use kill, then they can't abuse kill. So I compile my own version of kill (for personal convenience, of course)... I suppose that if you're only trying to stop Joe Average shooting down the turbo processes then you'll be OK replacing /bin/kill with a script that does some checking first. Chris -- VISIONWARE LTD, 57 Cardigan Lane, LEEDS LS4 2LE, England Tel +44 532 788858. Fax +44 532 304676. Email chrisd@visionware.co.uk -------- "Visionware: The home of DOS/SQL/UNIX/X/VMS integration" --------