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From: avr@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using 'exit' in a Bourne shell script
Message-ID: <3564@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 18:22:39 GMT
References: <169@mccc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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Summary: Generic kill parent

In article <169@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
> I would like to have my users logout via a shell script "off" rather
> than with ^d.

Any sh script can kill its parent shell (in your case, the login shell)
with

kill -1 `ps -f -p $$|grep $$|cut -c16-20`

This assumes the System V ps spec, but could be adapted to any
UNIX(tm) system and any version of /bin/sh.

					Adam Reed (mtgzz!avr)