[lug] Killed Background process on logout

[D. Stimits]

James Stroud wrote:
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> Hello All,
> 
> Is there any way to keep my Linux install (Red Hat 7.x on a Pentium 200) from killing a user's backgrounded process when he/she logs out from an X-windows session or from telnet/rlogin/ssh? I can't seem to find the cleanup script on my machine that would be responsible for such behavior.
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> James
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The screen or iscreen program is good for this. I don't think it is
installed by default, but is available on RH. It's a very handy tool for
interactively doing this. Otherwise you probably must modify the actual
program, or find some other involved change.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com