Preventing Idle in telnet, security, and bg.

[JIM BURNS]

in article <2911 at idunno.Princeton.EDU>, pfalstad at dae.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) says:

>>$ csh (or whatever)
>>% sleep 100 &
>>% kill -HUP $$
>>$ ps

> Well that was dumb of me.  Of course this works in any shell, but it

You also might not want to use '$$'=current shell. Try '$!' in ksh, '%1'
in [ck]sh w/job control, or just use the PID reported by '&'.

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