Jack,
When you talk about .login and .logout files, your are talking
about more traditional shells like the Bourne Shell (or was it the C
shell?). Bash uses .bash_login and .bash_logout . Now given the fact that
on most Linux distributions /bin/sh is a symbolic link to /bin/bash, and
also given that if bash is invoked as /bin/sh it tries to emulate the
Bourne shell behaviour as closely as it can, you _may_ get the .login and
.logout files to work. I havent tried this in a while, though.
As for the PATH not being set up properly while the login scripts
are being executed, this is completely predictable : bash reads the files
/etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile in that
order. One just has to figure out in which of these files the PATH is
being set.
Regards,
Kenneth
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Jack Barnett wrote:
> In your home directory there will be 2 files .login and .logout(take
> notice of the leading dot), the might not be there is not create them.
> The you can put any commands in these files that you want to run when
> you login and logout.
>
> Open .login with your favorite editor (vi, pico, joe, emac, xedit, etc)
> and put any valid command in there, just to show you how it works put
> the command
>
> echo "Hello, nice to see you have logged in"
>
> in your .login file and put
>
> echo "Goodbye"
>
> in your .logout file.
>
> your can put a "df -ak" in your login to show the amount of disk space
> when you logon in, or the command "free" or "uptime" and it will display
> the amount of free memory and how long the system has been up. Any
> valid commands works, you can even called perl scripts from them.
>
> Sometimes it is best to put the direct path to the program like instead
> of 'echo "hello"' you could put '/bin/echo "hello"' just to make sure it
> can find the echo command, since you are just logging in, your path
> *might* not be setup at this point
>
> If you want to put scripting in this, it is recommened that you use the
> script launge of the shell you have, if you default shell is bash, put
> bash if and loop statements in, since tcsh syntax may mess it up.
>
> Have Fun
>
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Thanks everyone for helping me those past few times but I still have
> > more questions a coming :)
> >
> > The question is - How do I make / modify login scripts ...
> >
> > Thanx
> > >From
> >
> > Robert Hickey
>
