How can I excute a shell script when logout ?

[sufang]

HPUX11.00

thanks

[Dario_1]

Hi!!

You can schedule in cron or use the at command.

man crontab

man at

Regards,

DR

[Dario_1]

Hi!!!

You can use the at command or add a cron entry.

Regards,

DR

[sufang]

thanks for your answer. but what i need is not a scheduled task. i want to let the shell excute some scipt or application just when a user logout (exit) from the server.

[Bill Douglass]

For ksh users, set the commands in .logoutk in the user's home directory.

[Suhas_2]

Hi,
In csh you can configure the .logout file. From there you can call the requisite shell script or you can configure that ".logout" file itself as a shell script.

Alternatively,
Inside your .profile you can call another script, which would wait for the exit of your shell. Once it gets the exit code, it would execute a certain commands. This would be helpful to track root-logins and root-logouts, by sending out an e-mail saying root was logged in at XX:YY Hrs and logged out at ZZ:WW Hrs.

Regards..
Suhas

[Chris Wilshaw · Accepted solution]

You can achieve this using the trap command;

trap "your_script" 0

(last character is zero)

eg

>trap "banner LOGOUT" 0
>exit
# ####### ##### ####### # # #######
# # # # # # # # # #
# # # # # # # # #
# # # # #### # # # # #
# # # # # # # # # #
# # # # # # # # # #
####### ####### ##### ####### ##### #

Connection closed.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

try nohup