RE: restarting minivend - should I be allowed to do this?

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

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> I noticed a minivend process running on my
> ISP's machine.  When I built the simple demo
> I replied yes when asked if I wanted to add
> my catalog to the already running minivend.
>
> Then I did a restart, and indeed I was able to
> restart the running minivend.
>
> That was great for me because I didn't have to
> deal with the ISP at all, but is this setup
> dangerous?  Could someone else stop this minivend
> process and shut me down?

Yes, if they have the correct permissions. You should check to see who the
owner of the process is (ps agl or sometimes ps2 agl). Based on the
settings in minivend.cfg, restarting should not be a problem for users
except for the few seconds the server is restarting. Session information
is stored in a file and is usually not cleared with standard minivend.cfg
settings upon restart.

Christopher Thompson

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