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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: SysV lp spooler a security hole
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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 15:57:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 10 15:57:54 1987
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In article <2916@psuvax1.psu.edu> schwartz@gondor.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz) writes:
>In article <214@ho7cad.ATT.COM> wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM writes:
>> ...  You  can use the lp
>>spooler to take care of anything that you want to happen in a serially
>>controlled manner.
>Yup, and you could call it batch processing.  While i agree that 
>there is probably a need for a tool like this in unix  (here at
>PSU there is a locally generated one called `batch') it strikes me
>as funny to tout it as a feature of the unix spooler, considering
>that unix was designed to be and stands out for being a highly interactive 
>environment.

Don't laugh too hard .... one of the "major" line printer spoolers
does exactly what he sugests ...  MDQS from the nice folks at BRL.
You can spool things to any sort of daemon, including a "shell" 
daemon.  Multiple queues to any device, multiple devices hanging
off a queue, and all sorts of nice features.  It's just that when
we put it up here, we ran into a number of bugs and are again running
the ucb lpr stuff ...

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