Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!ss From: ss@wivax.UUCP (Sid Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: background processes under 4.2bsd Message-ID: <19228@wivax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 23:02:52 EST Article-I.D.: wivax.19228 Posted: Fri Feb 24 23:02:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 04:42:39 EST References: <989@druxy.UUCP> <5319@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma. 01879 Lines: 16 [Recap: problem is to kill a background process automatically when logged out.] Another solution (I have just been reading Kernighan and Pike's book, and I have become inspired to write shell scripts!) Use a shell script to do various pipes with ps, grep, sed, tail, etc. to isolate the PID of the process you wish to kill and use kill to kill it. I use one and it works just fine. I have the script called by .logout. It is a Bourne shell script. It took me less than 10 minutes to write! Sid Shapiro -- Wang Institute of Graduate Studies [cadmus, decvax, linus, apollo, bbncca]!wivax!ss ss.Wang-Inst@Csnet-Relay (617)649-9731