[K12OSN] I need an automatic relogin script

[Tim Litwiller]

Shahms King wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 17:36 -0500, Tim Litwiller wrote:
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>>I need some king of monitoring script for mozilla/firefox  that if the 
>>user closes the program the terminal will logout.
>>
>>Is this possible?
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>This has been addressed before, I believe (check the archives linked at
>the bottom), but the short answer is "yes".  The long answer (how to
>accomplish it) depends on a lot of other variables like whether you want
>the users to be able to run other applications, etc.
>
>The quick-and-dirty answer is: X will exit (and gdm will respawn) when
>the script that launched the session does.  If you look in 
>/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions you'll see a bunch of executable scripts.  These
>are the files that gdm launches when a user logs in.  When that script
>"returns", the terminal is logged out.
>
>Most of those files simply "exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession <sessionname>".
>Most of the actual session logic is in that script so you can, without
>changing anything, make any of the sessions "mozilla-dependent" by
>changing them to:
>
>/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession <sessionname>&
>exec /usr/bin/mozilla
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>When the user exits mozilla, the session exits and they are logged out.
>
>Not the most elegant solution, but it will work.
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thanks for that explanation -I'll try that as soon as I can.