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From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
To: DW <spock@dwinner.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas
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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