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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newmail also displays on console (bug)
Message-ID: <4774@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 89 02:54:36 GMT
References: <316@wubios.wustl.edu> <890001@hpausla.HP.COM> <5142@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <5142@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
+>> 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?

Newmail already obeys SIGHUP. This particular user's environment is 
such that the SIGHUP is not being sent to newmail and that's the problem.
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