Someone posted modifying /etc/profile as a solution to working around
shell-specific ways to clear the screen at logout.

I was pointing out that /etc/profile is shell specific.

My unanswered question was: what is signal 0?

Ben

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:03:28PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Ben Collver <collver@softhome.net> wrote:
> 
> >That looks neat!  One criticism and one question:
> >/etc/profile and trap are specific to the bourne shell and do not work with
> >csh on my NetBSD system.
> 
> from csh(1):
> 
>      When a login shell terminates it executes commands from the files .logout
>      in the user's home directory and /etc/csh.logout.
> 
> I mean... one would think people actually read the manpages for the
> programs they use if things are unclear...
> 
> 	--mkb
> 

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