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From: Chris Tenaglia - 257-8765 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unix Logging Out, all done
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I want to thank all of you for your suggestions. I divide them up into two
categories. kill and exec.

These were replies to a question I posted about being able to log out from
within a program (menu) during an interactive session. In my case I want to
tightly control an account by keeping it in a tight menu. This can be used
to conserve disk, cpu, and improve security.

kill did not always work, and it turns out to be a brute force method. It
doesn't behave the same everywhere depending on ones version of unix.

The plan that worked for me was to put 'exec menu' at the end of the .login
script. Perhaps it's not 100 percent bulletproof, but for my intents and
purposes it does what I want in the standard acceptable manner. I'm running
icon v8.7 under ultrix 4.2a on a DEC 5240 workstation.

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