Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: .logout for ksh?
Keywords: .logout, KSH, help!!!
Message-ID: <12299@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 4 Oct 88 18:29:08 GMT
References: <1594@mcgp1.UUCP> <209@dcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <209@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
| In article <1594@mcgp1.UUCP> fst@mcgp1.UUCP (Skip Tavakkolian) writes:
| >Is there a way to execute something on exit, in Korn shell?
| >This would be like the ``csh'' ``.logout'' file.
| 
| I use a statement in /etc/profile to accomplish this:
| 
| trap ". $HOME/.logout.ksh" 1

  This is an excellent answer to the problem, but there is a way to make
it more flexible. In my .profile I have code like this:

	for n in 0 1 3 15
	do	trap ". $HOME/.logout $n" $n
	done

and my .logout starts with:

	TermSIG="$1"

This allows me to make some tests in the logout script which avoid
loops. When just doing a normal termination I ask if all terminals
logged in under my ID are to be logged out, to allow me a fast way to
end the day. Others will probably want to use other tests.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me