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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 20:03:07 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
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Subject: Re: WHY? WAS:Clear screen before login...
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In the last episode (Sep 14), Malartre said:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> <BIG SNIP>
> > the screen by putting a "clear" comment on their ~/.logout script.
> </BIG SNIP>
>
> I have created a .logout with the clear command on the first line.
> But how can I make bash/sh/csh understand than they need to read
> .logout when they receive the exit command?

>From the man pages:

( csh )
     When a login shell terminates it executes commands from the files
     .logout in the user's home directory and /etc/csh.logout.

( bash )
         On exit:
               if ~/.bash_logout exists, source it.


( sh ) 
    doesn't seem to have a logout script, but you could always
    simulate one by putting 
	logout() { 
            clear ; exit 
        }
    in your ~/.profile.

( zsh )
       ~/.zlogout
       /etc/zlogout

Since this is a per-user thing, and since each user only has one login
shell, you only have to create one of the logout scripts.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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