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Find and delete logout script

Hi all,

I have to remove (or deactive) a script a previous system administrator installed on a server. When a user logs out, when you type exit, the following is displayed:

Code:

logout

updating slocate database

I did some research and thought I solved it when I found a script slocate.cron in /etc/cron.daily and moved it to a temp folder. But didn't helped!

Thanks in advance!

Check for a file called .logout in the users' home directory. If its running the slocate update, rename it, remove it, or remove executable permissions from that file.

Quote:

Originally Posted by arungoodboy (Post 3479278)

Check for a file called .logout in the users' home directory. If its running the slocate update, rename it, remove it, or remove executable permissions from that file.

Thanks for the reply but I cannot find anything like that there. By the way, there are like 45 user folders in the home dir...

Hmm.. I did a quick search and can't seem to find the global equivalent of .logout. Anyway just to clarify, did you check /home/user1/.logout instead of /home/.logout?
Also if this is happening for each shell that is closed, you might also want to check for the existence of something like /home/user1/.bash_logout or /etc/bash.logout.

Take a look in
/etc/bash.bashrc

Quote:

Originally Posted by arungoodboy (Post 3479302)

Thx for the effort. I found both those files but they contain only these 2 lines:

Code:

# ~/.bash_logout



clear

As for /etc/bashrc it contains this:

Code:

# /etc/bashrc



### thijs wil kleur

alias ls='ls --color=tty'



if [ $UID -gt 99 ] && [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" ]; then

        umask 002

else

        umask 022

fi



# are we an interactive shell?

if [ "$PS1" ]; then

    case $TERM in

        xterm*)

                if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then

                        PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm

                else

                PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$

                fi

                ;;

        screen)

                if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen ]; then

                        PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen

                else

                PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$$

                fi

                ;;

        *)

                [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ] && PROMPT_COMMAND=/et$

            ;;

    esac

    # Turn on checkwinsize

    shopt -s checkwinsize

    [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

fi



if ! shopt -q login_shell ; then # We're not a login shell

        for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do

            if [ -r "$i" ]; then

                . $i

            fi

        done

        unset i

fi

# vim:ts=4:sw=4

I did looked into it and actually I don't know which are all scripts will be executed
when user ends his session (logout)

But nevertheless there should also be some indirect way:
(Correct me if I am wrong!!!)
First we have to know actually which script does this updation? So try to grep the string "updating slocate database" like as shown below:

grep -R "updating slocate database" .

From this try to get which all scripts are trying to do this activity and remove/deactivate those scripts.

Please also let me know if it works!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by kpraveen455 (Post 3479422)

I did looked into it and actually I don't know which are all scripts will be executed
when user ends his session (logout)

........grep -R "updating slocate database" .

It's executing, yet one hour. I'll let you know
(Maybe there is an option to give the search process absolute priority? to speed it up a little)

Quote:

Originally Posted by laurens (Post 3479496)

It's executing, yet one hour. I'll let you know
(Maybe there is an option to give the search process absolute priority? to speed it up a little)

Check out the 'nice' command. Though I've never used it, I understand that increasing the priority too much could yield a nonresponsive system until the program is finished.

Dont know if it will help, but each user on my system as a ".bash_logout"

Code:

 cat .bash_logout

# ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits.



# when leaving the console clear the screen to increase privacy



if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then

    [ -x /usr/bin/clear_console ] && /usr/bin/clear_console -q

fi

Hope that helps

Could be in /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, see also the user's .bashrc, .bash_profile. Could be set as a fn in there. He may also have altered the example in /etc/skel, if there is one.