Checking for new mail (and killing bkgnd process on logout?)

[Amos Shapir]

In article <128 at isgtec.UUCP> bmw at isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) writes:
>You end up with dozens of the little buggers.
>
>My (slightly klugey) solution is to add a line to my .logout (csh):
>
>	/bin/kill -9 `ps x | awk '$5=="checkmail" {print $1}'`&
>
>Anyone know a better way?

alias logout 'kill -1 0'

This works in most versions of csh.

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