On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:30:35PM -0400, jhell wrote: > On 09/10/2010 22:21, jhell wrote: > > On 09/09/2010 23:27, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > >> I have a directory that must not exist on logout and rm -rf is not > >> sufficent to do it because the contents need to be processed by our > >> version control system. The real life scenario is our version > >> control system stores the repo for a given project encrypted but for > >> techinical reasons it needs to keep the checkouted files in plain text > >> (they are all in the same dir) and I want to *NEVER* have the plain > >> text checkouted files in my dir when I logout, *BUT* instead of just > >> deleting it I need to check them in... so how do I make my .logout so > >> if the file exists it will not exit and give a error saying that dir > >> is still there? (minor but unimportant side effect of the version > >> control system is the dir will have a different name everytime it is > >> made but always the same prefix) > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > > > trap '/path/to/your_wrapper_script.HERE' 2 > > > > This should be: > > trap '/path/to/script' EXIT > > > Should execute the contents of that script on every logout. Whether that > > script is a line by line action or a fully qualified script with > > functions to call different actions are up to you.
...but, of course, that's only until people learn that they can bypass this by something like 'kill -FPE $$'. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bg r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If wishes were fishes, the antecedent of this conditional would be true.
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