System-wide logout script?

[Chris G]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 07:53:29PM +0200, Jaap Winius wrote:
> Quoting houghi <houghi at houghi.org>:
> 
> >Perhaps I am misuinderstandig what you want, but what is wrong with the
> >buttons provided by XFCE with the action buttons?
> 
> I don't want to leave this up to the users. The script I want to run
> is meant to trigger replication of directories information among
> several file servers. All that should happen in the background
> without the users ever being involved, just like
> /etc/bash.bash_logout is run automatically when users exit the bash
> shell.
> 
I asked for something like this a while ago and the answer was that
there isn't such a thing.

In my case I needed a way to shut down VirtualBox in a civilised way
before [x]ubuntu shut down.

As you say an X equivalent of .bash_logout is what's needed, but there
isn't one.

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Chris Green