how t have a command launched when ever i logoff

Knightron · 02-15-2012, 01:12 AM

Hello, i would like a command to be launched so i can remove some catch files, when ever i logoff. How does one go about doing this?

fukawi1 · 02-15-2012, 01:17 AM

This will probably vary between distro and shell..
But with bash, creating a script and calling it from ~/.bash_logout, and(or) /etc/bash_logout should work.

Knightron · 02-15-2012, 02:40 PM

yes I am using bash. thanks for your help. will this work every time I logout on the GUI?

PDock · 02-15-2012, 03:51 PM

My experience was this did not work if your system directly [ie run level 4] boots a gui login. If you use startx after login then close the window manager and logout via bash it works fine. Now this was at least six years ago.