Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: how process in background can kill itself after logout (BSD unix). Message-ID: <1991Jan30.233605.19700@convex.com> Date: 30 Jan 91 23:36:05 GMT References: <1991Jan29.012702.7265@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer): :In the meantime, leaving processes running after logout on modem :ports causes very confused gettys to be spawned. You can work :around this by "kill -9"ing these bad gettys. Here's a script :to do that. You'll need the latest version of sps for this :to work right. sps doesn't compile on my machine. i'll bet others have the same situation. --tom -- "Hey, did you hear Stallman has replaced /vmunix with /vmunix.el? Now he can finally have the whole O/S built-in to his editor like he always wanted!" --me (Tom Christiansen )