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How do i make it so when a admin logs on to the shell it runs a certain script? Thanks...
- 12-29-2011 #1Just Joined!
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How do i make it so when a admin logs on to the shell it runs a certain script? Thanks
- 12-29-2011 #2Linux Engineer
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When anyone logs in (or opens an xterm) a script in their home directory called.bashrc is run automatically. If you modify root's .bashrc to do the things you want, they will be done on every root login.
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- 12-29-2011 #3Just Joined!
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Thank you for the help this is very awesome. To the shell script menu that is gong to eat up my time most of the week. AWAY!!!!
- 12-29-2011 #4Linux Guru
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Actually, .bashrc is run every time a shell is started. You want to use .bash_profile for scripts that are only run when a user logs in.
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- 12-30-2011 #5Linux Guru
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Good point, rubberman.
@OP,
I tend to use customized scripts in /etc/profile.d/*.sh for this purpose, when I want system wide things to happen at login.
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