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Howto: Linux Kill and Logout Users

by Vivek Gite on August 14, 2006 · 28 comments

Yet another newbie question that suggests people love to kill and show their power to rest of the world ;)

There is a package called procps. It includes various useful (nifty) utilities. One of such utility is skill which is responsible to send a signal to users and process such as:

  • Halt user terminal
  • Kill user and logout

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nohup Execute Commands After You Exit From a Shell Prompt

by LinuxTitli on January 4, 2006 · 29 comments

Most of the time you login into remote server via ssh. If you start a shell script or command and you exit (abort remote connection), the process / command will get killed. Sometime job or command takes a long time. If you are not sure when the job will finish, then it is better to leave job running in background. However, if you logout the system, the job will be stopped. What do you do?

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