Gavin W. Burris on 1 Oct 2010 13:30:09 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Blocking A Program From Running


What do you have against computer animators?  If there is free CPU, why
not let them use it?

Cheers.

On 10/01/2010 03:21 PM, holdenergy1 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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-- 
Gavin W. Burris
Senior Systems Programmer
Information Security and Unix Systems
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
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