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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: SIGKILL and kill
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 03:01:55 GMT
Message-ID: <C5nsF8.35H@sugar.neosoft.com>
Keywords: SIGNALS SECURITY
References: <1qo3mq$d4b@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <9304171535.ab08751@gate.demon.co.uk>
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In article <9304171535.ab08751@gate.demon.co.uk> damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) writes:
> have seen a SIGKILL will soon follow. In fact I have been trying to
> work out why sh ignores SIGTERM when at the command prompt (it behaves
> properly when running a script).

So you can do "kill 0" to get rid of background processes without logging out.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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