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Date:      Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:10:59 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
Cc:        questions at FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sh(1) equivalent to bash(1)'s $HOME/.bash_logout?
Message-ID:  <20020809151059.GA72261@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208091101480.10214-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
References:  <20020809144240.GA3773@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208091101480.10214-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>

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In the last episode (Aug 09), John Bleichert said:
> I think /bin/sh uses .login and .profile on the way 'in' and .logout on 
> the way out. I put "clear" in .logout of my root account and it works 
> fine.

/bin/sh runs the following files on startup:  /etc/profile, ~/.profile
(or /etc/suid_profile if root/setuid), and whatever filename $ENV is
set to, if any.  It does not run ~/.login (which would be in csh format
anyway), and it does not run anything on logout.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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