csh - how to automatically kill background processes on logout

Jonathan I. Kamens jik at athena.mit.edu
Mon Aug 7 04:53:04 AEST 1989


  Or, if you don't mind killing all of the processes owned by you
instead of just the ones you started from your login shell, you can
just do "kill -HUP -1" in newer BSD systems.  Everything will get the
HUP signal.

  This is also useful if you're on an X workstation and your login
xterm dies somehow but doesn't log you out.  "kill -9 -1" does a
pretty good job of terminating the login session quickly :-).

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