ccs013@castor.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler) (05/25/89)
Does anyone know how to get a ".suffile" file to work for ksh? Jason Gabler ccs013@castor.ucdavis.edu jygabler@ucdavis
benji@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Jeff Benjamin) (05/26/89)
> Does anyone know how to get a ".suffile" file to work for ksh?
I assume you mean the equivalent of csh .logout, to do something
when you exit a session?
Ksh does not do anything like this for you automatically; you have
to set up your .profile to trap the signal generated on a logout and
then execute a command.
Syntax for a ksh "trap" is: trap [arg] [sig]..., where "arg is a command
read and executed when the shell receives signal(s) sig."
See the ksh man page for more info.
The line to do this in my .profile looks like:
trap $HOME/.logout 0
This says "when you receive signal 0 (logout), execute $HOME/.logout".
So my .logout file is executed when I logout from ksh as well as
from csh.
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Hewlett Packard Co. Fort Collins, Colorado tel@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.e.lowe) (05/29/89)
>trap $HOME/.logout 0 >This says "when you receive signal 0 (logout), execute $HOME/.logout". >So my .logout file is executed when I logout from ksh as well as >from csh. KSH Has a timeout feature that will log you out after so many seconds of idle time if your TIMEOUT (or TMOUT, i forget) is set. I've been told that doing this trap will prevent this timeout from working. Is this true? Why? Bug or Feature? Is it avoidable? Thanks! -- Tom Lowe tel@hound.ATT.COM or att!hound!tel 201-949-0428 AT&T Bell Laboratories, Room 2E-637A Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733 (R) UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T (keep them lawyers happy!!)
carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu (05/31/89)
/* Written 8:21 pm May 28, 1989 by tel@cbnewsh.ATT.COM in s.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.questions */ /* ---------- "Re: .suffile/.logout in ksh (affec" ---------- */ KSH Has a timeout feature that will log you out after so many seconds of idle time if your TIMEOUT (or TMOUT, i forget) is set. I've been told that doing this trap will prevent this timeout from working. /* End of text from s.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.questions */ For ksh-i, that's not the case. I have TMOUT and trap "$HOME/.logout" EXIT set, and they both work fine.
kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat) (06/01/89)
In article <984@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> tel@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.e.lowe) writes: >KSH Has a timeout feature that will log you out after so many seconds >of idle time if your TIMEOUT (or TMOUT, i forget) is set. I've been >told that doing this trap will prevent this timeout from working. >Is this true? Why? Bug or Feature? Is it avoidable? No, that is not true; the shell exits after TMOUT seconds of idle time (+60 sec grace), and the trap is taken correctly when it exits. -- Govind N. Kamat College of Engineering kamat@uceng.UC.EDU University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) (06/03/89)
In two articles, people have written things like: + >KSH Has a timeout feature that will log you out after so many seconds + >of idle time if your TIMEOUT (or TMOUT, i forget) is set. I've been + >told that doing this trap will prevent this timeout from working. + >Is this true? Why? Bug or Feature? Is it avoidable? + + No, that is not true; the shell exits after TMOUT seconds of idle time + (+60 sec grace), and the trap is taken correctly when it exits. I had the problem with an old Korn Shell (before ksh-i) running under 4.3BSD on a VAX 780. It's been too long ago to remember. But I think the shell would either hang and not log out or give some error message without doing the commands in the trap. Sorry -- I can't remember more than that, and I have ksh-i now. --Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, jdpeek@suvm.bitnet +1 315 443-3995