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From: heff@flnexus.ATT.COM (Paul K Heffner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using 'exit' in a Bourne shell script
Message-ID: <144@flnexus.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 88 14:57:44 GMT
References: <3564@mtgzz.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T-IS, Orlando, FL
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in article <3564@mtgzz.UUCP>, avr@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed) says:
> 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`

The command:

stty 0

sets your baud rate to zero, forces a hangup which causes SIGHUP to
be sent to all correspondent processes thereby 86'ing them. This
has been used with nominal success in some of the 'bye' routines
on our systems here.



Paul Heffner
AT&T Orlando