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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newmail also displays on console (bug)
Message-ID: <5142@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 28 Feb 89 14:28:43 GMT
References: <316@wubios.wustl.edu> <890001@hpausla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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>> If you start newmail as newmail& and you use the c shell, newmail
>> will not be killed when you logout as c shell will nohup it.
>> 
>> Thus when you log out, other users will still get the newmail output
>> to the terminal.

>> This is not an Elm bug.


Since we can easily predict that people WILL do this, I say it's a problem
that should be fixed.  Why not just set SIGHUP to be sure it gets killed?






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  Jon Zeeff			zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us
  Ann Arbor, MI			mailrus!b-tech!zeeff