🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov17.001020.18066@athena.mit.edu> robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak)  
writes:
> In article <BxtDwG.4L7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen  
> B) writes:
> > In article <BxLvqp.B5o@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk  
> writes:
> > > 
> > > Is there any way of launching a FileViewer with setuid root privs?
> > > 
> > > If it doesn't exist, maybe it should.
> > 
> > It certainly should. 
> 
> O.K. I'm going to throw a little TNT onto this fire:
> 
> Disclaimer:  I am not responsible for anything you type into your machine.
> 
> Try this (PLEASE do not do this as root):
> 
> Type into a terminal window:
> 
> /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/WM -NXAutoLaunch YES &
> 
> I clipped this from a "ps ax" and added the "&" so that I could keep my  
> terminal window useful.
> 
> This creates a new workspace on top of the old one (move it and see).
> Except for moving or copying from the old workspace to the new one,  
> everything seems to work fine (you can still create multiple viewers,  
> etc.).
> 
> So far, I can get out of it by choosing "logout" from either WorkSpace's  
> menu, which generates an error and logs you off ungracefully, or by doing  
> a "kill PID" which generates an error and logs you off ungracefully.
> Neither is satisfactory.
> 
> I checked the online docs with DL and found no mention of command-line  
> arguments for WM.  Maybe there's some argument which will make it exit  
> gracefully when you hit logout without killing everything in sight.
> 
> Maybe now that I've got people around the planet crashing their  
> Workspaces, someone who really knows will pipe up.  :-)

The next obvious thing to try would be to `kill -HUP <PID>` it.
I'm not going to do it, though (got same serious work to do).

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)

Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
          80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.