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From: terryh@ukcsd.uk.sun.com (Terry Heatlie - Sun UK - Tech Support )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: how process in background can kill itself after logout (BSD unix).
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Date: 30 Jan 91 08:08:34 GMT
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Reply-To: terryh@ukcsd.uk.sun.com (Terry Heatlie - Sun UK - Tech Support )
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not going away on logout is a feature of processes run in the background
from the C shell.  I guess running the processes from a bourne shell
instead may make it die when you log out.  Alternatively, you could kill
the process from your .logout.


Regards,
Terry Heatlie.

Disclaimer:  all my own work (except this disclaimer, which I nicked).