Whilst I'd have to support Dave's excellent advice:
For a fairly clueless user, restricted to finder, yes.
For anyone who can drive Terminal intelligently,, no way - except for just ONE that I know of:
Many years ago I was a Mainframe Godlet (Systems Programmer:} ) and needed a (mainly logging) App to be running 24/7 - partly to 'keep an eye' on what the Graveyard shift Operations folk were doing - "Oh, it just crashed after 5hrs, no, it didn't do a Core dump and I never did nuthin'....
After the first few times they accidentally 'killed' (Terminated, like 'force quit') it or Suspended/Halted it, I got annoyed, did a bit of slightly lateral thinking (i.e. lying down with a Beer...) and implemented Version 2 which they not only couldn't get rid of but which 'laughed at them' when they tried (Unstoppable: Several lines of HAHAs on a teletype, complete with bells...The Ops started calling the program HAHA - with prefixed adjectives of a pejorative and plaintive nature
GRIN).
+*just for fun, Kappy & Co, rather than me describing what I did, would you care to take a crack at guessing/predicting what I did/how I did it?*+ - As a mental game or puzzle, if you like. 🙂
for the purpose, you could assume it was a modern mac/Leopard combo (because for these purposes *NIX is enough like the Burroughs MF OS in this area) and that i didn't patch the OS or do anything really low-level [with one exception that isn't really relevent because it took take of the case where they shut down & restarted the MF and, as you no doubt know, that's very unlikely].
If the idea bores you, I'll come back later and post 'the solution' just to tie up the loose end (somebody else may make use of it,,besides,
I think it's cute
grin.
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