nohup on Eunice?

[Jamie Hanrahan]

In article <2703 at epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck at epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <3468 at emory.uucp> km at emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to run a Eunice background job which
>>will survive the logout of the login shell that started it?
>The VMS security model makes this pretty much impossible.  The only
>way a user can run a job that survives logout is to have DETACH
>privilege.  But the way VMS defines DETACH privilege, a user with that
>privilege can create a job running as any user, and therefore can do
>anything.  Stupid, right?  But there's no way around this.

1.  VMS V4.0 introduced the "detached processes" quota.  This is set by 
the /MAXDETACH qualifier on the AUTHORIZE utility's MODIFY, ADD, etc., 
commands.  The default value of 0 represents an unlimited number.  With
this quota, a nonprivileged user can create the indicated number of 
detached processes with the same UIC as that of the creating process,
without needing the DETACH privilege (which does indeed permit the creation
of a process with any UIC).  

2.  Or, the interactive user can always start a batch job.  I don't know
how well this applies to Eunice, though....