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- From: jdb@surf.cis.ufl.edu (John Brothers)
- Subject: brain search
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- Organization: CIS
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:24:15 GMT
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- I've been desiging a 'remote signalling' system, for unix (of course).
- Essentially, a user would be able to send signals to processes on remote
- machines, using a small daemon on each machine. I've added some features,
- like associating processes with names, so you don't need to know the
- pid, and "passwords" associated with the processes, so a group of people
- would have signal access to the process, instead of just the owner.
- The system has been designed to be simple and portable, and currently
- interacts between suns, hps and ultrix decs, with sgi (hopefully) not
- far behind. It uses sunrpc, and will shortly use des encryption, to be
- as secure as possible.
-
- So why am I telling you about this? Well, my prof thinks that I could
- submit something like this to usenix, but we want to make sure that there
- aren't any current, well-used utilities that do the same thing.
-
- If there are, I probably need to find a new thesis topic. :)
-
- Thanks for your time.
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