[K12OSN] Script question

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:08 -0400, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> First, as an off-topic item, congratulations to Eric, Scott, Francis, and 
> Stephen., for their work on local apps.  Most excellent!
> 
> Now, my question:
> 
> I've created a script that gives a user the ability to do certain tasks.  The 
> user is brought right to the menu at login by adding a reference to the 
> script in .bash_profile.  One of the menu options is to exit the menu.  Right 
> now, that simpy dumps the user back to his shell prompt.  What I'd like it to 
> do is to log the user out of the system.  I've tried coming up with 
> something, and have googled, but can't seem to come up with the solution. Is 
> it possible?  If so, can anyone help?

At the end of the script that is launched from .bash_profile add a
logout at the last line. Make sure the script that runs the menu is not
ending with a "&". This way the scripts get run in order. When one
finishes the next runs until the last one, logout, then they are out.
> 
> With thanks,
> 
> Dimitri
> 
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