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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Background processes on logout
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.091836.14043@Think.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 91 09:18:36 GMT
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In article <1991Feb22.035953.29266@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>  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.

Sounds like a good idea for a manual command, but not for a .logout file,
if you ever login on more than one terminal.  If you're logged in twice and
use that command you'll kill all the processes on both terminals.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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