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Re: Re: init files

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From: "Zefram" <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: sweth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sweth Chandramouli)
Subject: Re: Re: init files
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:13:13 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <19980809210204.33286@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Sweth Chandramouli" at Aug 9, 98 09:02:04 pm

Sweth Chandramouli wrote:
>	i totally misread the part about changing interactive (too many hours
>staring at a screen, i guess), and my shell is defined as a login one because
>its argv[0] is `-zsh'.  i assumed it didn't because of the info in the faq on
>changing your shell, which mentioned linking it to -zsh; echo $0 shows that
>i am running -zsh, even though i never made that link.  does login somehow
>invoke the shell and pass it a modified argv[0]?

Yes.  login always adds the "-" when invoking the user's shell.

>secondly, is there any way to ensure that an action will be taken for all
>users upon logout?

Yes.  Modify login to invoke the command when the login shell terminates.
Any method based on the user's shell performing the action can be
trivially circumvented.

-zefram

References:
- Re: Re: init files
  - From: Sweth Chandramouli

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