Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!apple!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice Subject: Re: nohup on Eunice? Message-ID: <2703@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 19:18:56 GMT References: <3468@emory.uucp> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 17 In article <3468@emory.uucp> km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >Does anyone know how to run a Eunice background job which >will survive the logout of the login shell that started it? >Normally these jobs die no matter how one tries to manipulate >the process group or hangup signals, presumably because the >Unix emulation is not faithful in this respect. The VMS security model makes this pretty much impossible. The only way a user can run a job that survives logout is to have DETACH privilege. But the way VMS defines DETACH privilege, a user with that privilege can create a job running as any user, and therefore can do anything. Stupid, right? But there's no way around this. -- - Joe Buck jbuck@epimass.epi.com, or uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck, or jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net for old Arpa sites