How to disallow logout

[jhell]

On 09/09/2010 23:27, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> I have a directory that must not exist on logout and rm -rf is not
> sufficent to do it because the contents need to be processed by our
> version control system.   The real life scenario is our version
> control system stores the repo for a given project encrypted but for
> techinical reasons it needs to keep the checkouted files in plain text
> (they are all in the same dir) and I want to *NEVER* have the plain
> text checkouted files in my dir when I logout, *BUT* instead of just
> deleting it I need to check them in...  so how do I make my .logout so
> if the file exists it will not exit and give a error saying that dir
> is still there? (minor but unimportant side effect of the version
> control system is the dir will have a different name everytime it is
> made but always the same prefix)
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trap '/path/to/your_wrapper_script.HERE' 2

Should execute the contents of that script on every logout. Whether that
script is a line by line action or a fully qualified script with
functions to call different actions are up to you.

Good luck,

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 jhell,v