From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-09-10T03:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for system administration

In article <a0611044ebd6643589e7b@[192.168.0.100]>,
Keith P Hodges  <keith_hodges@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Being subversive tip - dont forget to change the name of your 
>executable to perl.
>
>I used to find my subversive activities were quite processor 
>intensive and would attract attention at the top of `top`, especially 
>when the name of my executable was "squeak".
>
>Easily solved - change the name of your executable to perl and no one 
>bats an eyelid if it hogs the cpu  :-)
>

I suspect that this is a tongue-in-cheek suggestion since renaming the 
ruby executable to perl would break some things that might actually need perl.

But I wonder... Is there a way to 'spoof' what shows up in top (without 
renaming the exectuable)?

sort of like sudo, but something like:
> runas perl ruby foo.rb  ?

  runas <name of program you want to show in process table> command 

....not that I'm trying to promote subversiveness; just curious.


Phil