> Or could be set to log out ( a little more difficult since it would have
> to tell the shell to log out and couldn't be a program ) or to change
> the keyboard config ( I'm still trying to automate this in the command
> line ).

control-d is logout, in xterms and pc consoles (under bash, and many other
line-reading environments).
it sends an EOF character.

Carl Soderstrom
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