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Re: [PLUG] Blocking A Program From Running
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I'm not sure theres any way really to prevent it from running, without
getting into the murky depths of SELinux, but the killall command in cron
would be easy, and affective
Claude
On 15:30 Fri 01 Oct , Mike Sheinberg wrote:
> Isn't that more of a political issue? Someone is running something you
> don't want them to run, why don't you just warn them and then if they
> continue to do it bar them from computer access (disable their account)?
> Errr or maybe a cron job toï
> 'killall blender'ï
> every 5 minutes or so....
> or whatever the name of the command is .. That wouldn't prevent it from
> starting but it would sure be annoying as hell to dissuade them :)
> -Mike
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:21 PM, holdenergy1 <[1]holdenergy1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Good afternoon -
>
> What would I Google to figure out how to prevent a program from
> running in Ubuntu?
>
> The issue is I want to stop any instance of Blender from loading, and
> that would include new versions that got downloaded and just run from
> the desktop (as opposed to versions that were properly installed
> through Aptitude).
>
> I successfully blocked the apt installed version by changing it's
> permission but now someone has figured out how to download and run it
> from the desktop.
>
> What would you do?
>
> Thank you all for the great insights I have found on this list for
> several years now.
>
> -Andrew Holden
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