> On 1/11/06 12:51 PM, "Bryan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>> I use SuperDuper! to do regular backups on my machine. It's nice in that I
>>>> can tell it to run an AppleScript before starting that will quit my
>>>> Database
>>>> Daemon.
>>>>
>>>> I notice, however, that my wife's Daemon is not affected by this in her
>>>> identity. And so, a few questions:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Is it possible to quit her Database Daemon from a script run on my
>>>> side?
>>>
>>> Yes, you can - but you need to have remote access scripting (or whatever it
>>> is called nowadays) turned on on her machine. You may also need adminn
>>> rights to terminate an app. You will also need to do:
>>>
>>> tell app "mic...daemon" of machine "my wife's imac's name" to quit
>>
>> She's just another user on this machine, not on a different computer.
>
> I didn't quite get your original question. For your wife's Database Daemon
> to be running at the same time, surely that means that she has a separate OS
> _user folder_ (user account in System Preferences/Accounts), not merely a
> separate Entourage identity? You really need to tell us the setup, Bryan, to
> get an intelligent answer from any of us. If she simply has a separate
> Entourage identity she gets to via "Switch identity" in the Entourage menu
> item, I'd be surprised if her Daemon was running at the same time as yours.
> If she has a separate OS user, then naturally it could, but again it's
> surprising that hers has a different name ("Microsoft Database Daemon").
Yes that's correct. She has a separate account in the OS.
> As Barry says, that means she's actually running a different version, and
> copy, of Entourage. So do you two have your own Applications folders inside
> your own user folders, or is one of you, but not the other, using Entourage
> in the Microsoft Office 2004 folder in /Applications, or what exactly? (You
> couldn't have two copies of Microsoft Office 2004, named the same, in
> /Applications. Could your wife even be using Entourage X from a Microsoft
> Office X folder? I can't actually recall at which version change the Daemon
> changed its name, whether it was the origin 2004 11.0 or a later update such
> as SR1 2004 11.1.)
We're both running the same daemon. I deleted Microsoft Office X a long
time ago. Just now I verified that we're both running the same version of
Entourage, and removed the Database Daemons from both our login items so
that Entourage would put the correct version in. It did, and they were the
same: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Microsoft Database Daemon
Even after that, they still appear differently in Activity Monitor (OS X
10.4.3).
I believe it has something to do with what information Activity Monitor has
access to on your own processes versus another user's.
> In any case, it should be possible to kill it, even from a plain
> AppleScript, but it would be best to know what the setup is first.
Great! Any idea where I could start?
- Bryan
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