Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!nsc!taux01!cjosta From: cjosta@taux01.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: signals to running processes Message-ID: <950@taux01.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 07:01:28 GMT Reply-To: cjosta@taux01.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler) Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd. Lines: 34 I have a program that takes a long time to finish running. From time to time (sometimes never, sometimes more frequently) I would like to find out the current status. The way I accomplish this is to send one of the user defined signals (SIGUSR1 - no. 30) to the process. The process has a signal handler that catches this signal and writes out the current state (number of loops done, how long it has been running, when it will finish, etc.). This all works fine but only I (the owner of the process) can send the signal. If my boss, for example, wants to look at the status of the process, he can't. My questions are these: 1) Is there any way for someone who is not the owner of a process to send the process a signal? 2) Or, is there another way for a random user to cause a program to asynchronously print out a status report (or perform some action) once it has started running? I know I can have the program print out a status report every x minutes/hours/loops/whatever, but I don't want this. I want the report to be printed out only when specified to do so. I could also probably (haven't done this yet) write a shell script that would send the signal and is setuid to me but then if different people run the program (other than me), there must be different shell scripts that are setuid to each person who might run the program. For example, if either user A or user B might run the program, but it is user C that wants the progress report, then there must be a shell script setuid'ed to A and one setuid'ed to B. Is there a cleaner approach? -- Jonathan Sweedler === National Semiconductor Israel UUCP: ...!{amdahl,hplabs,decwrl}!nsc!taux01!cjosta Domain: cjosta@taux01.nsc.com