From: Paul A <razor at 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