Using 'exit' in a Bourne shell script

[Lawrence F. Strickland]

in article <1062 at bakerst.UUCP>, kathy at bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent) says:
> 
> In article <169 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>>I would like to have my users logout via a shell script "off" rather
>>than with ^d.  The script I wrote is very simple, but 'exit' has no
>>effect. ...
> 
> 	trap '$HOME/.logout' 0

As you mentioned, exit will only get you out of the script, not the
enwrapped shell.  I've always had good luck with:

	kill -9 0

in a shell script.  This is a bit rough (as it kills ALL programs associated
with the terminal, including background ones), but it has to be since a
normal kill is ignored by the shell.  I'm sure there is a better way, too...
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