[13900] in Athena Bugs
Re: RINGWORLD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Oct 4 02:30:59 1995
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 02:30:46 -0400
To: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: pc-dialup@MIT.EDU, bug-dialup@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[13899] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> In the meantime, people with apropriate bits should keep an eye out
> for rouge lynx processess on the dialups (all platforms, but I recall
> it being especially bad on DECstations.)
Two solutions:
1) Fix gunner to deal with this.
2) Replace lynx with
#!/bin/csh -f
limit cputime 5m
exec /path/to/lynx "$@"
(replace "$@" with the appropriate csh idiom).
(1) certainly is more general purpose and should
probably be done anyway.
(2) is helpful for machines that are gunnerless.
--jhawk
