Disabling Quit On Telnet

[Scott Walker]

Was wondering how you guys handle this situation:

Once a posting procedure has started I disable the break key with a
"break off" in processing.  That works fine if the user tries to press
<Del> in SCO Unix or <Ctrl><C> in Linux.

But what if he takes his mouse and clicks on the "X" in the upper right
hand corner of the Anziolite screen?  Boom he's out, the posting aborts,
and I've got a mess.  his happened today where a customer was posting
cash receipts.  One of the functions that the posting performs is to
update the customer's balance maintained in the customer file.  Well,
someone else was updating the customer's address info so the record was
locked.  FP gave him the "Waiting for 'otscust1' Record 2345 To Be
Unlocked" message as it should.  Being a new user, he had no idea what
that meant.  After waiting there for several minutes, impatience got the
best of him and he clicked the "X" in on the Anzio screen.  Telnet
session terminated....posting screwed up....some files updated, others
not....out of balance, etc.

How do we prevent this?  Facetterm term has a great feature that you
could turn on at the server in the .facet file (something like
Disable_Quit_While _Windows_Active) to prevent the user from exiting
while some program was running underneath Facetterm.

Anzi has this feature to disable the Quit:

To see this feature:

	Edit
	  Advanced Options
	    Security
	       Check Disable Quit Box

This does the job great.  The problems with it are:

	1.  Since it is set at the workstation level I am counting on
whoever installs Anzio to set it.

	2.  I'm counting on the fact the the user will not change it.

I don't have a high degree of confidence in both 1 & 2 above.

I really need something that is setup/configured at the server so I can
do it from my remote location one time and users can't get at it.

How about it....how is this best handled.  What do you guys do at your
installations?

Regards,

Scott


Scott Walker
RAM Systems Corp.
scottw1 at alltel.net
Ph: (704) 896-6549
Fx: (704) 896-7458