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[bmessin@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Ben Messinger)]

dizzy wrote:

> Thats rite apparently there is already a Unix version see
> <A HREF="http://www.cultdeadcow.com/tools/";><A HREF="http://www.cultdeadcow.com/tools/</A">http://www.cultdeadcow.com/tools/</A</A>>
> apparently this is for the *controller* to use unix rather than be on another
> windows machine
<snip>
> for the more adventerous/experienced user the thing must be pretty cool.Id
> love to have the time to experiment in an *enclosed envioriment ieLAN* 

Yes, this tool (I use it as such) is great. On our network we have a
cheesey windows app that everyone uses. This app is a sort of database
client that locks the database while being used. The problem is that the
database must be updated each night, and if someone goes home having
left their database client open it can't be updated. 

The cure is back-orifice running on the Linux Samba server. A cron job
script can poll each windoze box (after hours) to see if someone left
their database client running...and kill it if they did. Then the
database can be updated without problems.

Everyone in my office uses windoze, but Linux rules my network.  :)

-- 
Ben Messinger
Linux user #79,342 (Better late than never!)
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