Re: (WAY OT) Setting up a user's profile

I have done this before, and have the following to say :
is it ksh ? (as you said): If this is Korn Shell, read up on the trap command.

can you change the /etc/passwd: You can change the shell in the /etc/passwd to be the program in question. Then killing it, or exiting it in any way would kill the session.

Or, lastly, i would suggest catching the signals using the %SIG hash within the perl program this is for (or whatever catch mechanisim if it is not perl)

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Re: Re: (WAY OT) Setting up a user's profile by RedDog (Pilgrim) on Oct 01, 2001 at 19:02 UTC
I wasn't able to change the shell to the name of the program in the /etc/passwd file(although I do have root access to the system), but I now give you the following lines which solved my problem: USER=`who am i\|cut -c 1-8` trap 'trap 0;exit' 0 1 3 15 cobrun /home/production/cobolobj/eftchg $USER wait exit [download] Your reference to the trap command got me looking in the right direction. Thanks again for your help. RedDog	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: (WAY OT) Setting up a user's profile
by RedDog (Pilgrim) on Oct 01, 2001 at 19:02 UTC

USER=`who am i|cut -c 1-8`
trap 'trap 0;exit' 0 1 3 15
cobrun /home/production/cobolobj/eftchg $USER
wait
exit
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