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From: achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: some questions for the gurus.
Message-ID: <825@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 23:16:12 GMT
References: <8809142353.AA14291@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <8809142353.AA14291@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu> dbfunk@ICAEN.UIOWA.EDU (David B. Funk) writes:
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>    I am pleased to see that SR10 will provide process ownership
>and "crp" control. I would like to add my vote to the "shut" control
>demand.
>
>    Dave Funk
>    Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network (ICAEN)
>    University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
>    dbfunk@icaen.uiowa.edu


I would tend to agree with Dave.
But what I wouldn't want to see is a 'Unix' fix to shut: if you are root you can,
otherwise you can't.
We have a situation similar to the one described by Dave and we would like to
prevent people from shutting down 'important' nodes, BUT I don't want to
prevent some happy Apollo owner from shutting down his/her machine !
Yes, I'm thinking about something similar to the shutspm kludge, that would
be good enough for us.

Achille Petrilli
Cray & PWS Operations