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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.3 csh job control
Message-ID: <12761@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 May 90 05:57:35 GMT
References: <5152@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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In article <5152@helios.TAMU.EDU> craig@stat.tamu.edu (Craig Smith) writes:
-   We have a bit of a problem at our site (which consists mostly of
-Suns running SunOs 4.0.3) with novice users misusing ^Z and winding up
-with many, many stopped jobs wasting virtual memory and bringing the
-system to a crawl.
-I cannot think of any other solution to this problem that does not
-involve the use of kludgy temporary files or hacking the csh source
-itself.
-Any suggestions?

Yeah -- educate your users in the proper use of ^Z.
Much simpler, and more generally useful than a specific hack.