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From: jonl@sco.COM (Owl Of Nite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using 'exit' in a Bourne shell script
Message-ID: <194@scovert>
Date: 11 Feb 88 16:29:32 GMT
References: <3564@mtgzz.UUCP> <144@flnexus.ATT.COM> <2871@ncsugn.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: jonl@sco.COM (Owl Of Nite)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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+-I seem to recall emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (Ted H. Emigh) writing:
|
| In article <144@flnexus.ATT.COM> heff@flnexus.ATT.COM (Paul K Heffner) writes:
| > 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.
| 
| >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.
| 
| Of course, this will only work if you want them to be disconnected, rather
| than merely logout.  In particular, if you have people using su, they may
| not want to be disconnected.
| 
| 
| 
| -- 
| Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
| uucp:	mcnc!ncsuvx!ncsugn!emigh	internet:  emigh%ncsugn.ncsu.edu
| BITNET: NEMIGH@TUCC                  @ncsuvx.ncsu.edu:emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu

Also, something to be noted is that when using rlogin (at least on 4.2 and 4.3
BSD machines) and stty 0 will be completely ignored by the pseudo tty.

if the world was beige, id paint it a different color
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