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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "monthd" doesn't terminate
Keywords: month, exit, ultrix 1.2
Message-ID: <6454@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 15 Nov 88 21:39:46 GMT
References: <1252@leah.Albany.Edu> <3035@haven.umd.edu>
Reply-To: wagner.pa@xerox.com (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <3035@haven.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>I also have the problem with monthd not exiting when I log out; I have not
>yet had the time to solve that problem.

I don't have the original sources of `month' around, but the problem with
`monthd' sitting around even after logging out can be fixed easily by doing
a kill(getppid(), 0) and checking the return value for ESRCH. I did that
in the main daemon loop after the sleeping.

You could also check /etc/utmp if the user is still logged in, or use a wrapper
which forks the monthd, and which kills it off as soon the parent dies.

Juergen Wagner
wagner.pa@xerox.com
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Juergen "Gandalf" Wagner,		   gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA