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From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
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Subject: Re: Apollo unkillable processes
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Date: 19 Sep 90 18:31:12 GMT
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>question: who is the 'owner' of these processes?
>try using the command
>/etc/server /com/sigp xxxxx -s
>if the 'owner' is user.server
>also i found that logged in as root, I can sigp anything.

Before SR10.2, anyone can sigp any process (except display_manager?) but kill
does check ownership. Sigp behaves better (in terms of ownership) under
SR10.2.