Find out your Perl PID, find out the user who's running it, and kill their session using `kill`?
+Pete "Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 2E4528861499D41199D200A0C9B15BC031B508@FRISTX">news:2E4528861499D41199D200A0C9B15BC031B508@FRISTX... > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matthew Blacklow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 7:33 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: logging out a user > > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > Got a bit of a conundrum here. I have a perl script that does various > > things for any user who runs it. What I need it to do is, at > > the end of the > > script, not only exit the script, but actually log that user > > out of their > > shell login on the box completely. > > > > Sounds like a weird thing to do, but its quite an acceptable > > thing for what > > this script is doing. Im writing and executing this script > > under FreeBSD > > 4.4-RELEASE and any help would be appreciated. > > Do they need to run your script from the shell at all? Perhaps you > could simply set up their account so your script is the startup > program. Then when they log in, they go straight into your script. > When your script ends, they are logged out. > > Short of doing that, I don't see how you can force them to log out. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
