Re: terminate screen session with childs

[Micah Cowan]

Rainhard wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a problem to kill screen and its childs.
> I'm starting a program through rc.d scripts with
> screen -dmS <name> -- <program> <args>
> So far everything works great, but if I make a kill on screen,
> the child survives.
> Anyway, if I'm starting the program with screen -mS ... and then
> detach and kill, it's working.
> Anyone have a clue why it's not working in detach/daemon mode?

It's a lot more useful if you can give specifically what steps do and do
not work, the exact commands and steps you take to terminate the programs.

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