[wplug] NOHUP question

[Steve Snodgrass]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:13:36PM -0500, Randy Kosarik wrote:
> Can you kill a process that has been initiated with NOHUP?
> 
> ex:
> nohup cp ./* ../newfolder &

The same way that you kill any other process: kill <PID>.

The nohup command only protects from SIGHUP, which is typically generated if
you log out.  It does nothing to SIGTERM, which is what kill sends unless you
specify otherwise.

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