Unix philosophy

[Tim Maroney]

    About controlling the play of games:

    Maybe I've missed something, but what is wrong with just using a
sh or csh script to check the system load and/or number of users
periodically, and turn off execute permissions on the games if the
load and/or number of users is too high?  Your script can also use awk
with ps to kill running games, if you want.  That is how it's done
here, and I am not aware that anyone has broken it.  (That doesn't
mean no one has -- I haven't tried.)  Of course, the game sources are
protected against reading, as are the game programs themselves, to
prevent private copies.

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Tim Maroney
duke!unc!tim (USENET)
tim.unc at udel-relay (ARPA)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

PS.  No, I can't distribute our local program, but if you can't write
     this yourself, you shouldn't be reading this group.