How to disallow logout

jhell jhell at DataIX.net
Sat Sep 11 02:30:40 UTC 2010


On 09/10/2010 22:21, jhell wrote:
> 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
> 

This should be:

trap '/path/to/script' EXIT

> 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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