Hi, I was searching for the system wide bash_logout and couldn't find any documentation on it.

There is no system wide bash_logout, according to the bash man page, CentOS 4.7.

Instead look at the way a system wide bashrc is included in ~/.bashrc: [ -f /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc You could do the same in ~/.bash_logout: [ -f /etc/bash_logout ] && . /etc/bashrc

If you want to include that line for every new user's ~/.bash_logout, add it to the file /etc/skel/.bash_logout, then create the user(s).

Chris

From: Paul A razor@meganet.net

Hi, I was searching for the system wide bash_logout and couldn’t find any documentation on it. If I create a file ~/.bash_logout file it gets executed when the user logs out but when I create a system wide /etc/bash_logout it doesn’t work. Not what the issue is since I couldn’t find anything on that.

The bash man page does not mention any global logout file...

FILES /bin/bash The bash executable /etc/profile The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells ~/.bash_profile The personal initialization file, executed for login shells ~/.bashrc The individual per-interactive-shell startup file ~/.bash_logout The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when a login shell exits ~/.inputrc Individual readline initialization file

You could modify the one in /etc/skels but it would only apply to new users, and can be changed by them later... Or, you could chown/chmod the ~/.bash_logout and put '. ~/.bash_logout.user' in it...

JD