[27168] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.46: psutils
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Mon Jan 28 17:41:30 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:40:32 -0500
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Thanks for following up on this, Andrew. Now that you mention it,
YES we put psutils in an ACL controlled space precisely because we're
not allowed to redistribute it to the wide world, even though we are
licensed to run it on Athena.
I think instead of using the psutils from Transcript, the free
versions shipped as part of Linux should be the ones used. Alas, I
do not know what the exact mapping of functionality is.
-Bill
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On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:37 PM, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>
>> What were you trying to do?
>> man psnup (without tokens)
>
> The psutils locker contains among other things, a build of Adobe
> Transcript, which is not free software, which is presumably the reason
> for the non-public ACL.
>
> Is having tokenless access to psutils something that would be actively
> useful in some regularly-occuring context, or is this more of a
> theoretical objection? I'm CCing 3partysw, which may have a
> clearer idea
> of the status here, but if there's reason we could probably
> segregate or
> punt the Transcript stuff.
