On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Jim Procter wrote:
> I'm under the impression that LAM implicitly requires a shell session to
> execute its demons and sub-processes, but...
In general, yes -- LAM will require a shell in order to launch its
executables.
> > basically im looking to run something like apache (system service) but im
> > not going to compromise my boxes security to do it.
Please note that LAM is not intended to be used for system-administration
types of tasks. If you're looking to do system-level tasks, LAM is
probably not the right tool.
> This is exactly what a GRID style authentication is for. So to rephrase
> the question - does lamboot via globus authentication cause LAM
> processes to execute jobs in a sandbox ?
LAM uses the Globus fork scheduler. So, no.
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