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- From: ccs@aber.ac.uk (Christopher "Jd" Samuel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Anyway to stop X-windows?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.124556.5971@aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 12:45:56 GMT
- References: <Mf8rdHK00WB7Aha1hO@andrew.cmu.edu> <4179@wzv.win.tue.nl>
- Organization: University of Wales - Aberystwyth - Prifysgol Cymru
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- In article <4179@wzv.win.tue.nl>
- rob@wzv.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta) doodled:
-
- > jl8p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph C. Lappa) writes:
- >
- > > We want to use a couple 5000/240s for compute only servers. Does
- > >anyone know of way that will prevent users from being able to use these
- > >to run xwindows programs? The servers will not be running any telnet or
- > >remote utilites. There is a queuing system being setup, but we're not
- > >sure how to disable the abilit to run xwindows programs.
-
- > The suits strike again ...
- > First, why not ?
-
- Perhaps they have quite a few machines running X already, and they want
- to have a machine somewhere that has a reasonable amount of free memory
- and CPU so that people can do some real work like running Crack without
- it continuously being swapped out...
-
- > solution ? Delete them. Hang Vt220's on the machines and make people
- > use those. Think of a way to keep your job as users rain down
- > complaints on your bosses desk.
-
- Whats wrong with VT220's ? Our PC's terminal emulators still emulate
- VT100's, and before you say go and get X for a PC, we aren't on the
- Internet yet, so that won't help for anything off site.
-
- There's nowt wrong with a VT220.. :)
-
- Cheers,
- Chris
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