topic Re: Ksh log out message. in Operating System - HP-UX

Ksh log out message.

Mike Jeff — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:37:02 GMT

Hi everyone,

My problem is when I logout, I get the message:

"ksh: l: Arguments must be %job or process ids"

Any ideas?

Re: Ksh log out message.

RAC_1 — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:58:25 GMT

Check your profile. Check for the trap command and check what it does??

Anil

Re: Ksh log out message.

Alex Lavrov. — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:59:38 GMT

WEll, it seems that in your logout script, you have some command that produces this output. Check in your profile file which script is it and try to debug it.

Re: Ksh log out message.

Geoff Wild — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:18:10 GMT

Also check for .logout

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Ksh log out message.

Stephen Keane — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:23:07 GMT

In particular look for something like

jobs -l

Re: Ksh log out message.

Mike Jeff — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:18:14 GMT

Thanks for all your quick responses everyone! I did forget to mention that the .logout file did not exist for this login.

The problem was with /etc/profile. The following entry had been commented out by one of my colleagues:

trap "echo logout" 0

Re: Ksh log out message.

Mike Jeff — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:23:37 GMT

Thanks to all that helped!

The problem was caused by the following entry in /etc/profile being commented out:

trap "echo logout" 0