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From: fjs@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: how process in background can kill itself after logout (BSD unix).
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.234858.15536@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 23:48:58 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.012702.7265@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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fjs@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman) writes:


>I would like to be able for a process I have running in the
>background to kill itself after I logout. I am using BSD unix
>in a Sun Sparcserver 490. Because a bug in the OS the process
>keep writing to the terminal after I logout. Any help will
>be appreciated.
>			- Fernando

I would like to thank everybody who sent help to this posting.
I received many interesting suggestions to use from a C program.
Because what I had was a script I ended using the command

trap 'tiding up commands; exit 1' 0 1 2 15

which I found in K&RII. Thank for the help 

						Fernando