execute WHATEVER after login? [SOLVED]

Arkham · Last edited by Arkham on Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:49 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi there...

sorry for the noobish question, but I haven't found anything remotely related to what I'm looking..

I want to login to my gentoo box (graphical or text), and right after that I need to run some scripts (mount some shares, clean some directories, whatever)

is there a file that handles that? something like .xinitrc but for session start, not X start

Thanks!

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heikole · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject:

~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile (with bash as your shell) come to mind for doing this.
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Arkham · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject:

Danke schön.. aber... Ich nicht.... I mean..
what should I do with them?

I created .login (and .login_user) in my home directory and put in there the name of the script I run.., but nothing happened when I login

let's say I have an executable script called whatever, and everyday I turn on my computer and after login in, I must open a terminal and write:

heikole · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject:

When you put a line for your script named whatever into your ~/.bash_profile, whatever is executed at logon automatically. Is this not the behaviour you want to have?

Das Leben kann so einfach sein

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Arkham · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject:

Excelent!! that's exactly what I was looking for...

thank you so much...

Just a few question related to this

is there some kind of .bash_logout something that executes when you logoff?

and what hapens if I log in under X/KDE/Gnome, then switch to vty1 (Alt+Ctrl+F1) and login again?

.... and yes... sometimes is THAT simple, but sometimes... well.. you know :p

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heikole · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject:

You should already have a file ~/.bash_logout which clears your screen when you logout. This is some sort of default.

These scripts are executed at *every* login/logout. If you want whatever to be executed at the first logon/last logout only, your script will need to know its state. I hope you'll have fun with this little task

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Arkham · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject:

you're kidding me!?!?