NAME

       syslogout - modular centralized shell logout mechanism

DESCRIPTION

       syslogout  is  a  generic  approach  to  enable centralized shell logout actions for all users of a given
       system in a modular and centralized way mostly aimed at avoiding work for lazy sysadmins.   It  has  only
       been tested to work with the bash shell.

       It  basically  consists  of the small /etc/syslogout shell script which invokes other small shell scripts
       having a .bash suffix which are contained in the /etc/syslogout.d/ directory.  The  system  administrator
       can  drop in any script he wants without any naming convention other than that the scripts need to have a
       .bash suffix to enable automagic sourcing by the /etc/syslogout script.

       For shell sessions, the contents of /etc/syslogout.d/" will be sourced by every user  at  logout  if  the
       following lines are present in his $HOME/.bash_logout:

           if [ -f /etc/syslogout ]; then
               . /etc/syslogout
           fi

       If  used  for  X sessions it is advisable to include the former statement into the Xreset script of the X
       display manager instead to prevent that closing of an terminal emulator window yields unexpected  results
       in  your  running X session if your X11 terminal emulator is using a login shell.  Be sure then to run it
       under the user-id of the X session's user.   See  the  example  files  in  /usr/share/doc/syslogout/  for
       illustration.

       Users  not  wanting  /etc/syslogout to be sourced for their environment can easily disable it's automatic
       mechanism.  It can be disabled by simply creating an empty file called $HOME/.nosyslogout in  the  user's
       home directory using e.g. the touch(1) command.

       Any  single  configuration  file  in /etc/syslogout.d/ can simply be overridden by any user by creating a
       private $HOME/.syslogout.d/ directory which may contain a user's own version of any configuration file to
       be sourced instead of the system default.  It's names have just to match  exactly  the  system's  default
       /etc/syslogout.d/   configuration   files.    Empty   versions   of   these   files   contained   in  the
       $HOME/.syslogout.d/ directory automatically disable sourcing of the system wide version.

       Naturally, users can add  and  include  their  own  private  scripts  to  be  automagically  executed  by
       /etc/syslogout at logout time.

OPTIONS

       There  are  no  options  other  than those dictated by shell conventions.  Anything is defined within the
       configuration scripts themselves.

SEE ALSO

       The README files and configuration examples contained in /usr/share/doc/syslogout/ and  the  manual  page
       for  bash(1),  xdm(1x),  xdm.options(5),  and wdm(1x).  Recommended further reading is everything related
       with shell programming.

       If you need a similar mechanism  for  executing  code  at  login  time  check  out  the  related  package
       sysprofile(8) which is a very close companion to syslogout.

BUGS

       syslogout  in  its current form is mainly restricted to bash(1) syntax.  In fact it is actually  a rather
       embarrassing quick and dirty hack than anything else - but it works.  It  serves the  practical  need  to
       enable  a  centralized  bash  configuration  until something better becomes available.  Your constructive
       criticism in making  this  into something better" is very welcome.  Before i forget  to  mention  it:  we
       take patches... ;-)

AUTHOR

       syslogout was developed by Paul Seelig <pseelig@debian.org> specifically for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
       Feel free to port it to and use it anywhere else under the conditions of either the GNU public license or
       the  BSD  license  or  both.   Better  yet, please help to make it into something more worthwhile than it
       currently is.

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