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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newmail also displays on console (bug)
Message-ID: <140@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:18:37 GMT
References: <316@wubios.wustl.edu> <890002@hpausla.HP.COM> <9120@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <127@titania.warwick.ac.uk> <9162@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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In article <9162@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon
Zeeff) writes:
|In article <127@titania.warwick.ac.uk> cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
|writes:
|>In article <9120@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon
|>Zeeff) writes:
|>>For systems with csh and job control, you could use the new newmail and put
|>>"/bin/kill -1 -1" in .logout.  This probably has bad effects for root and
|>>if you are logged in more than once.
|>
|>... and if you've got any background jobs you want to survive.  
|
|This isn't a problem with "kill -1 -1".  Remember that csh sets up background
|jobs to ignore SIGHUP.

Not on systems with job control it doesn't, it puts new jobs in their own
process group so that they never see the normal SIGHUP send on logout, but it
doesn't cause them to ignore them.

Rob
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