how process in background can kill itself after logout (BSD unix).

Terry Heatlie - Sun UK - Tech Support terryh at ukcsd.uk.sun.com
Wed Jan 30 19:08:34 AEST 1991


not going away on logout is a feature of processes run in the background
from the C shell.  I guess running the processes from a bourne shell
instead may make it die when you log out.  Alternatively, you could kill
the process from your .logout.


Regards,
Terry Heatlie.

Disclaimer:  all my own work (except this disclaimer, which I nicked).



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