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From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Checking for new mail (and killing bkgnd process on logout?)
Message-ID: <2477@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 14:44:59 GMT
References: <105@csnz.co.nz> <1989Aug26.200813.15629@twwells.com> <64@calcite.UUCP> <128@isgtec.UUCP>
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In article <128@isgtec.UUCP> bmw@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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	Amos Shapir		amos@taux01.nsc.com or amos@nsc.nsc.com
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