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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.questions,relcom.fido.ru.unix
Subject: Re: Strange things happen...
Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:14:26 GMT
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serg@infomag.mipt.rssi.ru (Sergei A. Golubchik) wrote:

> Today, when I logon, I saw some processes
> (midn. commander and X) running
> 'ps' tell me, that they belong to user
> who wasn't logged on now.
> and I know that he could'n do 'nohup'

Background processes in job control shells (other than AT&T's Korn
shell) are ``effectively nohuped''.  This is by sending the SIGHUP
only to the foreground process group of a tty.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)