nohup on Eunice?

[Joe Buck]

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?
>Normally these jobs die no matter how one tries to manipulate
>the process group or hangup signals, presumably because the
>Unix emulation is not faithful in this respect.

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.
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