Background processes on logout

David W Fraser dfraser at libws1.ic.sunysb.edu
Fri Feb 22 03:43:00 AEST 1991


In article <91051.180110F66204 at BARILVM.BITNET> F66204 at BARILVM.BITNET (Shaul Wallach) writes:
>
>   Please excuse this beginner's question. Is there any way for a
>user to log out of a UNIX system (say AIX/6000) while leaving
>background processes active? My experience seems to be that the
>logout command kills all background processes, something I want
>to prevent.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Shaul Wallach

Well I have the opposite problem.  I am using HP-UX 7.0, and when I logout my
background processes continue running.  Is there any way I can prevent this?
Such as adding something to my .logout file?

Thanks

Dave Fraser

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