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From: src@scuzzy.mbx.sub.org (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Lotus for sysV (multi-user?)
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.164226.1353@scuzzy.mbx.sub.org>
Date: 23 Aug 90 16:42:26 GMT
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nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn) writes:
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>3) look at process table.  Hackable by linking new names, or renaming lotus;
>but of course lotus could prevent renaming itself by looking at argv[0]

>Anybody know of another way?

sure, have a daemon running that the lotus binary send some funny messages.
if the daemon responds 'license exceeded' the prgm dies....
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