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From: dodd@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher T. Dodd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.3 csh job control
Message-ID: <1990May2.173531.9369@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 May 90 17:35:31 GMT
References: <5152@helios.TAMU.EDU> <12761@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <12761@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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.
>-Any suggestions?
>Yeah -- educate your users in the proper use of ^Z.
>Much simpler, and more generally useful than a specific hack.


	In line with the previous discussion about global login files,
why not give novice users an initial .login file containing 
`stty susp undef' and `stty dsusp undef'.  Presumably when they are
expert enough to remove (or counteract) these, they'll be expert enough
to use jobs correctly.


Chris Dodd
dodd@cs.stanford.edu