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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Background processes on logout
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.035953.29266@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 03:59:53 GMT
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In article <1991Feb21.164300.3596@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, dfraser@libws1.ic.sunysb.edu (David W Fraser) writes:
|> Well I have the opposite problem.  I am using HP-UX 7.0, and when I logout my
|> background processes continue running.  Is there any way I can prevent this?
|> Such as adding something to my .logout file?

  I don't know if HP-UX supports the sending of a signal to "process" -1 in
order to send it to all of the processes to which the user is allowed to send
signals, but if it does, then you should be able to do "kill -1 -1" in your
.logout file.  Here's what our man page for the kill system call says about
this:

     If the process number is -1 and the user is the super-user,
     the signal is broadcast universally except to system
     processes and the process sending the signal.  If the pro-
     cess number is -1 and the user is not the super-user, the
     signal is broadcast universally to all processes with the
     same uid as the user except the process sending the signal.
     No error is returned if any process could be signaled.

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