Hi,

We use Baan with the ASCII interface on a Linux box.

Our normal users automatically log into Baan when they start Baan.

Is there a way to have them automatically log out of Linux when they quit the BSHELL. In other words, how can I make it so the users never see a command prompt.

Thanks,
Rob

it's been a while.

Trying making their login shell ba6.1 (or a shell script that calls ba6.1)

Dave

Hi,

we normally put as last line into the users .profile:

...
exec ba6.1

Note that there is a big difference:
* if you write "ba6.1" the current shell remains running (and commands after ba6.1 could be execute); i.e. the user has one more shell process.
* if you write "exec ba6.1" the command is executed in place of the current process without creating a new process; i.e. one process less (per user!), no command after ba6.1, and finally: logout after ba6.1!

For more information on exec you should have a look am man sh (ksh, bash, ...), because thats a builtin command.

Günther

Hi,

We use Baan with the ASCII interface on a Linux box.

Our normal users automatically log into Baan when they start Baan.

Is there a way to have them automatically log out of Linux when they quit the BSHELL. In other words, how can I make it so the users never see a command prompt.

Thanks,
Rob


Hello,

as Guenter mentioned :

Edit the .profile and add :

ba6.1
exit

If settings of BSE environment is correct, you don't need the exec command.
We use this for all ASCII Interface Users (Telnet VT220).
The user never see a shell !

Regards

If settings of BSE environment is correct, you don't need the exec command.

For users, a) ba6.1; exit and b) exec ba6.1 are about the same; they never see the shell prompt after the exit ba6.1.

BUT: Each user has a (sleeping) shell process when use use a). So b) is better than a)!

Günther

Thanks to Günther.

In our environment (SUSE Linux), each bash shell took up about 9,000kb of virtual memory. Times that by our number of users, and that's close to half a gig of memory that was being used for nothing. We improved the performance of the server by adding exec.

Thanks again,
Rob