Re: Why does MS Word affect the Entourage database

[Bryan R Harris]

Title: Re: Why does MS Word affect the Entourage database

> On 6/8/06 10:39 PM, Bryan Harris deftly typed out:
>
>> Pray tell, how?  I know about "sudo killall", but I've gotten the impression
>> that that's much rougher on the app than "tell app ... to quit" in
>> AppleScript.  (Although no one's been able to confirm nor deny that...)
>
> osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit'
>
> -Remo Del Bello


Aah, yes, but as I stated several moons ago, I can't use this command on my
side to quit things on my wife's side.

Here's a little CLI voodoo:

  sleep 30; osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit'

Then switch to a different user.  After the 30 seconds is up, it will fire,
but it will quit the Daemon of whichever user account you're in *right now*,
not the one it was run from.

(At least the last time I tried it, it was probably under Panther.  Maybe
things have changed now...)

- B