Hello, I suggest enabling the checkjobs option by default. This option was introduced in bash 4.0 and causes bash to print a message if there are background jobs before exiting an interactive shell. This is very handy if you forgot about background jobs. running jobs before exiting an interactive shell. If any jobs are running, this causes the exit to be deferred until a second exit is attempted without an intervening command. The shell always postpones exiting if any jobs are stopped." An implementation suggestion is to add the following two lines to /etc/skel/.bashrc: # list the status of any background jobs before exiting an interactive shell. shopt -s checkjobs