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- From: hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Killing background processes on logout
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.140349.25323@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 14:03:49 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.233959.10014@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: news@athena.cs.uga.edu
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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- In article <1992Sep1.233959.10014@athena.mit.edu> hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com writes:
- >|
- >| In comp.os.linux you write:
- [note --- I can't attribute this, since hammond didn't]
- >|
-
- [some irrelevant stuff deleted]
-
- >| >So, I stand (sit) corrected. I now fully share the belief that the csh does
- >| >not kill background processes on exit. Thank you everyone for helping me
- >| >to see the light! :-)
- >|
- >| No problem. :-) The man page for csh would have done it quite some
- >| time ago, actually.
- >|
- >
- >Not necessarily so ... I fired up the man pages on my csh at work (SunOS) and
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >they did not mention it. Of course, I don't have the man pages for the linux
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >tcsh, so that may be where I've gone wrong! :-)
- >
-
- FLAME ON:
-
- Learn to accept, Kevin, that you are as likely as anyone
- to be wrong at every turn. From the csh(1) manpage of
- SunOS 4.1:
-
-
- nohup [ command ]
- Run command with HUPs ignored. With no arguments,
- ignore HUPs throughout the remainder of a script.
- When given, command is always run in a subshell,
- and the restrictions placed on commands in simple
- if commands apply. All processes detached with &
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- are effectively nohup'd.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- notify [ %job ] ...
- Notify the user asynchronously when the status of
- the current, or of specified jobs, changes.
-
-
-
-
-
- Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 2 October 1989 19
-
-
- FLAME OFF
-
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