Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Hiding stuff Keywords: I don't want to be seen. Message-ID: <53389@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 11 Mar 89 08:43:47 GMT References: <275@dekalb.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 17 In article <275@dekalb.UUCP> brian@dekalb.UUCP (Brian "I don't need a life" Charlton) writes: > > How do I hide what I doing,specifically,when someone envokes a >w,who,top,finger,ps,lastcom,etc...,it doesn't show what I doing. > Well.... your processes would have to change their names in the process table, which is possible, but you probably don't want to rewrite all the programs you use. Try invoking a shell inside of emacs. That's not entirely effective but more often than not "w" will show you as running emacs. +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs.bitnet uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | internet: spolsky@cs.yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ #include