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- Date: 06 NOV 92 22:33:23 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: Alternate UIC for MULTINET_SERVER?
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <2FC02F3506NOV92223323@TGV.COM>
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- > We are trying to develop a local application to provide weather data to
- > a group of observatories here in Hawaii. There is no problem getting the
- > MultiNet ser ver to spawn off a process to get the data, however, due to
- > the way in which the weather station data we need is used by our
- > telescope control systems, the data resides in a Group global section
- > and is therefore unreadable by the spawned process. Is it possible to
- > modify the RUN command in START_SERVER.COM so that the server is started
- > by a (fully-privileged) UIC in the proper group? Will anything else
- > break if we do this?
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- > (For various reasons, it is not possible to rewrite the weather software
- > to use a system global section.)
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- You could, but it isn't going to help you because it will still
- create the processes as owned by [1,4]. The best you could do is to
- have your server poke its UIC before mapping to the global section.
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- Ken
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