How to disallow logout

[Peter Pentchev]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:30:35PM -0400, jhell wrote:
> 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.

...but, of course, that's only until people learn that they can bypass this
by something like 'kill -FPE $$'.

G'luck,
Peter

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