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

[Fernando J. Selman]

fjs at nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman) writes:


>I would like to be able for a process I have running in the
>background to kill itself after I logout. I am using BSD unix
>in a Sun Sparcserver 490. Because a bug in the OS the process
>keep writing to the terminal after I logout. Any help will
>be appreciated.
>			- Fernando

I would like to thank everybody who sent help to this posting.
I received many interesting suggestions to use from a C program.
Because what I had was a script I ended using the command

trap 'tiding up commands; exit 1' 0 1 2 15

which I found in K&RII. Thank for the help 

						Fernando