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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Using 'exit' in a Bourne shell script
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Date: 29 Jan 88 21:41:48 GMT
Organization: Mercer Co. Comm. College, Trenton, NJ
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I would like to have my users logout via a shell script "off" rather
than with ^d.  The script I wrote is very simple, but 'exit' has no
effect.

		echo "OFF \c:" >> /usr/.logins
		who am i >> /usr/.logins
		exit

The correct entries appear in /usr/.logins, but 'exit' seems to be
ignored.  Typing 'exit' at the prompt does in fact do what I want --
i.e., act as a substitute for ^d.  I see that exit(2) is a system call
that terminates the calling process.  Oh oh!  It terminates 'off' but
doesn't log the user off!  Rats!@!@#$%

Can anyone suggest a way (SysVr3.0) to do what I want?  Thanks.
.

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