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Mike wrote: > I'm looking for a way to run a shell script automatically every time a > user logs out of Gnome or attempts to shut down the computer. Is this > possible? > > What I'm trying to do is to back up the users home directory to a back > up directory on a server, every time the user initiates a shut down. That's easy, though the exaxt details depend on your OS. Just use the /etc/init.d subsystem to make a K script for runlevel 5 (on my OS, that would mean putting a script in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ starting with a K. Whenever you exit X and return to runlevel 3 (or shut down), that script will be run, THere's also ~/.bash_logout -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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