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

[Joseph D. Shapiro]

In article <128 at isgtec.UUCP> bmw at isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) writes:
>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?

when initiating it in .login:

	checkmail&
	echo $child > ~/kill.$$

in .logout:

	kill -9 ` cat ~/kill.$$ `
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