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Re: how to automatically execute things?



On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:36:26PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
> What if you had root scriptably launch netscape as some user who is
> neither root nor the person logging in. (Normally I'm not allowed
> to kill processes started by other people.) I don't for a minute
> think this will actually work but maybe someone can explain why.
> -chris

process ownership does not mean anything when the app willingly kills
itself, which netscape happily does when you choose File -> Quit.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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