Exceeded User Count

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Fri Feb 11 05:35:18 PST 2005


Quoting Bill Akers <billa at mgmindustries.com>:

[...]
> > Some systems don't seem to send or receive the proper socket shutdown
> > commands when you exit with the "x" to close the window.  This causes
> > the *nix box to keep the session open, and as such the filePro program
> > is still running.
>
> I had a couple of users telnetting into SCO Unix who had in their
> .profile "trap '' 1 2 3", a holdover from long past dumb terminal
> days. These users could not click 'x' on the windows window? to close
> it without leaving open processes and idleout would also leave open
> processes. Commenting the trap command out solved the problem.

Telling the shell to ignore SIGHUP explicitly says "I don't want to
kill any process if the user disconnects".

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