.bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

[DW]

Andrew Gould wrote:
> --- DW <spock at dwinner.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Have a bit of an issue here:
>>
>> Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle
>> doing my unison 
>> commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't
>> forget to sync my 
>> local homedir to my server before I head home.
>>
>> Works fine as long as I just do a "# exit" when I'm
>> done.
>>
>> But more often than not, I do a "# sudo shutdown -p
>> now".
>>
>> The problem with that though, is that the shutdown
>> process runs as root, 
>> and just drops the system, and I'm never actually
>> getting logged out as 
>> much as booted out. So my .bash_logout doesn't run,
>> and thus no unison 
>> unless I remember to run it manually first.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to work around this sitch?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> DW
>>
>>     
>
> Instead of using .bash_logout, why don't you create a
> script that runs all of your logout tasks and then
> ends with 'sudo shutdown -p now'?
>   
That's a good idea; I'll probably end up doing something like that; I 
was actually thinking of of just making bash aliases for reboot and 
shutdown, I guess that would do the same thing.
The other problem though I just discovered is that that will work fine 
if I'm just in on a console, but if I'm running XFCE, and choose reboot 
or shutdown from xfce's exit menu, that won't work. If I can't find a 
way to get xfce to use my exit script(s), then I guess I'll just have to 
get into the habit of bailing out to a console first before shutting down.




> Andrew L. Gould
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