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- SysOb V1.1b ( OS 3.0 )
-
- Some slight improvements have been made ( The original documentation for
- Version 1.0 can be found at the end of this document ):
-
- - A Services menu has been added. If you want to work with a multiple-line-
- selection you may have to use the fix-Button first.
-
- - The TALK-hack used in Version 1.0 was replaced by clean code using 3.0's
- distributed objects.
-
- - The use of NILoginPanel ( used to authenticate the root-user ) was re-
- implemented hence the NIKit has changed and is ( ill though ) documented
- in 3.0.
-
- Beware if SysOb V1.1 ( without b ) ! It only got accidentally to the servers
- and contains a severe security-hole !
-
- SysOb
- =======
-
- Carsten Lutz ( clu@malihh.hanse.de )
-
- some hints for using SysOb:
-
- SysOb must be setuid-root or the Process-Inspector and some other
- functions will not work !
-
- User-Inspector
- --------------
-
- - double-click a user to enable the pull-down-menu for single-user actions.
-
- - All masks ( e.g. the name and port - masks in the options-window ) are
- regular expressions. So if you want only the users displayed, who's names
- start with 'u', use '^u.*' as mask instead of 'u*' or such nonsense...
-
- - Sending messages to or logging off _multiple_ users with one action is NOT
- possible yet.
-
- - The talk-action is a real cludge, yet, which might not work with OS-
- versions > 2.1 and it will not even work with OS 2.1 at anytime !!!
-
- Process-Inspector
- -----------------
-
- - The CPU-load and number of processes display is only the load and number
- of the displayed processes, not of all processes running ! So if you want
- to get the total load and number of processes, disable all masks and
- deselect "show threads" and "only with TTY" in the optionspanel.
-
- - If "show threads" is enabled, threads are displayed instead of tasks.
- Some fields are equal for all threads of a task then, because they are
- task- and not thread-specific. These fields are Commandname, PID, PGRP,
- PPID, Username, UID, controlling TTY, virtual size, real size, commandline
- and environment.
-
- This software is free, enjoy ! feedback is very welcome !
-
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