Scripts

Bigun · 11-12-2002, 02:42 AM

Is there a way to run a script when a user logs in and when they log out?

DavidPhillips · 11-12-2002, 02:49 AM

login

/home/user/.bashrc

logout

/home/user/.bash_logout

Bigun · 11-12-2002, 07:54 AM

"/home/user/.bashrc" works, but every time I click on a new terminal window in the X Manager it runs the script, giving me an error that the partitions are already mounted. (basically when I log in with my user I want to mount two partitions, I would use the "auto" switch in my fstab, but it would give it root permissions, no r/w access).

vladkrack · 11-12-2002, 08:13 AM

The right place is fstab, but to have permissons you should use chmod, try chmod 777 _mount_point_ ....

If you just don't wanna see the error add to your line a 2> /dev/null ... ( not a very wise choise

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DavidPhillips · 11-12-2002, 11:50 AM

or you could check to see if they are already mounted in your script

I can't see why they just can't stay mounted though.

As Vladkrak says set the permissions on the files and folders

you should make the permissions 770 or 774 whatever you need, and create a group for users that should have access

Bigun · 11-12-2002, 12:29 PM

I did this, as soon as they are automounted by fstab, only root has r/w permissions. I verified this by doing a search on the web on fstab. So, how would I check to see if they are mounted in the script? Or is there a script that ONLY runs when the user logs in?

DavidPhillips · 11-12-2002, 12:38 PM

that is what file permissions is for

if you had to use mount to set file permissions it would not be a nice world at all

chmod is a program for setting file permissions

you can give the owner, user, and other permissions for read, write, and execute

chown is for setting the owner and group of a file.

Bigun · 11-12-2002, 12:41 PM

Again, I tried this, as soon as it's mounted it changes the permissions and ownership to root. In fact I'll try it right now and repost if it works or not. After all, stranger things have happened.

DavidPhillips · 11-12-2002, 12:53 PM

what filesystem is on the partition?

Bigun · 11-12-2002, 12:58 PM

vladkrack · 11-12-2002, 01:12 PM

There shouldn't have problems to change permissons, as Dave just said, but if you wan't to take the other way, just add to your script something like:

mount | grep hdx > /dev/null
if [ $? == 1 ] ; then
(your mount line)
fi

ps hdx is the name of your partition ....

Bigun · 11-12-2002, 01:25 PM

Ohhh, pretty code! What does it mean?

DavidPhillips · 11-12-2002, 01:26 PM

I should have guessed,

use fstab to mount it like this for full permissions, adjust as needed

/dev/hda1 /win32 vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=99,gid=99,umask=0 0 0

DavidPhillips · 11-12-2002, 01:31 PM

note that uid is set to nobody

also umask is sort of a reversed chmod

umask=007 is like chmod 770

DavidPhillips · 11-12-2002, 01:36 PM

vladkrack's code will check for the drive using mount ( your drive is represented as hdx )