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From: goog@a.cs.okstate.edu (GOOG ??)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  Using exit in a Bourne shell script
Keywords: qwerty, uiop, asdf
Message-ID: <3733@okstate.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 20:15:25 GMT
References: <16540@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: goog@okstate.UUCP (GOOG ??)
Organization: Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Oklahoma State University
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In article <16540@brl-adm.ARPA> you write:
> ...
>I often hit a CTRL-D at my top-level shell and get logged
>off when I really did not want to log off -- I thought that I was under
>my message-reading program, for example, and wanted to get back to it.
>I had thought at first that I
>could do something with stty "eof" or suchlike settings that could make
>my actual logoff character someting other than CTRL-D, so I could use
>that to kill subshells, but not my top-level shell, but I've been told
>that won't work.
>
I had this problem also, and to combat it I put a line in my .login (not
.logout...) that states:

set ignoreeof

and that does it.  It will allow you to use Ctrl-D from anywhere to quit things
but not to logout.  It forces you to type the word logout to logout.

I hope this is what you were wanting.


Steve Koinm				Internet:  goog@a.cs.okstate.edu  
Systems Administrator				steve@nemo.math.okstate.edu 
Department of Mathematics
Oklahoma State University		UUCP: rutgers!okstate!goog 	
Stillwater, OK  74078
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