.bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

[Andrew Gould]

--- DW <spock at dwinner.net> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >   

I've never examined the shutdown procedures used by
windows managers; but the concept should be the same. 
You could write a script with your logout tasks
followed by the command executed by XFCE's shutdown
commands.  (I'm sure someone on this list can address
this part.)  

Next, create a button or menu option on XFCE's panel
to execute your script from a terminal application.

Andrew L. Gould