Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!uflorida!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Autologout of unused terminals Message-ID: <9032@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:39:44 GMT References: <201.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> <8978@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2682@sultra.UUCP> <9012@smoke.BRL.MIL> <213.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 8 In article <213.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> bengsig@orcenl.uucp (Bjorn Engsig) writes: -What I asked for in the first place was just a program to send SIGHUP to -processes, which seemed to be doing nothing. There will of course always -be cases where this 'seems' is wrong, but a process that wants to live could -easily do signal(SIGHUP,handler) (or nohup). Sorry, this doesn't work right, and anyway why should a process have to disable SIGHUP in order to do its natural job?