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#! rnews 1022 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news.idt.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!142.77.1.4!news.uunet.ca!not-for-mail From: "Kurt Schafer" <kschafer@cyberbeach.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Killing user processes at logout time Date: 31 Mar 1997 22:44:46 GMT Organization: Cyber Beach Communications Lines: 9 Message-ID: <01bc3e25$4b84fcd0$214f96cd@reality> NNTP-Posting-Host: reality.cyberbeach.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1160 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38251 Our shell machine is seeing alot of abuse by people who like to leave processes backgrounded before logging out. (IRC bot type stuff mostly) How can I patch things up so that when they terminate their interactive process, all their background tasks that may be running get cleaned up too ? TIA