Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:01:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> To: DW <spock@dwinner.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas Message-ID: <20060804170140.28887.qmail@web35313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44D37BAE.7000800@dwinner.net>
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--- DW <spock@dwinner.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > Have a bit of an issue here: > > Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle > doing my unison > commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't > forget to sync my > local homedir to my server before I head home. > > Works fine as long as I just do a "# exit" when I'm > done. > > But more often than not, I do a "# sudo shutdown -p > now". > > The problem with that though, is that the shutdown > process runs as root, > and just drops the system, and I'm never actually > getting logged out as > much as booted out. So my .bash_logout doesn't run, > and thus no unison > unless I remember to run it manually first. > > Any ideas on how to work around this sitch? > > Thanks, > DW > Instead of using .bash_logout, why don't you create a script that runs all of your logout tasks and then ends with 'sudo shutdown -p now'? Andrew L. Gould
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