From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 14:35:53 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA17040 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 14:35:53 -0800 Received: from vhf.dataradio.com (vhf.dataradio.com [198.168.41.55]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA17032 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 14:35:49 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by vhf.dataradio.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA00995; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:34:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:34:35 -0500 (EST) From: Charlie ROOT To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Odd behaviour in 2.0R Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Maybe I am overlooking something fundemental here, but I can't for the life of me get processes started by a user to die off when the user logs out. For example, if I run do a "sleep 60 &", and logout, it keeps running until it expires, or is killed. When I do a "ps -ax", it shows up as: 981 v2- S 0:00.?? sleep 60 & The odd thing is that this used to work ok in 1.1.5.1, but not in 2.0-RELEASE. Did something change? Help! Andrew Webster