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My problem is following:
I want to modify my login/logout so if I login a program is started, if I log off, it is closed (which it isn’t usually). (To let you know what I’m talking about – it’s dropbox)

Firstly, I have no root-access to the machine I’m working on.
Secondly, I’m aware I can just start the dropbox each time I log on and make an alias for example for the logout, so if I logout an additional command is executed.

If there is no other way to do this ok, but what I would like to do is: modify the login and logout so, that if I login/logout as usual, the dropbox is started/stopped automatically. Is there any other way to do this? My rights are restricted to my home-directory.

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If you are using bash then commands in ~/.bash_login are executed on log in and those in ~/.bash_logout are executed on log out/off if these files exists.

If you happen to have a ~/.bash_profile file that is readable, then that takes precedence over ~/.bash_login and only that file is processed.

If you use tcsh, you can put the command to start dropbox in ~/.tcshrc (or ~/.cshrc if it exists, or ~/.login) and for it to stop in ~/.logout.

For tcsh the order in which the files on login are read can differ depending on how the shell is compiled (and which can be checked with echo $version)

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  • sadly I dont have theses files in my home-directory. Additionally - wouldn't this run just if I use the bash? (tcsh is standard on the machine) Commented Apr 9, 2015 at 14:06
  • @groebsgr bash would need to be your login shell for them to work Commented Apr 9, 2015 at 14:16
  • @groebsgr I update the answer with info for tcsh Commented Apr 9, 2015 at 14:29
  • sadly there are none of these files in my homedirectory - i suppose on purpose by the administration. Nevertheless thank you very much so far! Commented Apr 9, 2015 at 14:40
  • @groebsgr you can create the files yourself, tcsh is unlikely to be compiled in a way that it ignores the files. Just make them and put an echo statement in to see if they work, then go from there. Commented Apr 9, 2015 at 14:44
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In a terminal run 

gnome-session-properties

Add dropbox to the list of start up applications.

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  • I just tried it - the start seems to work fine with this, any ideas to stop the program at logout? A quick idea would be to make the command in the given properties so it stops dropbox if i logout, but i have to try this. Commented Apr 9, 2015 at 14:07

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