UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I am using Tru64UX.
I have to login as a backup user to take the regular backups.
What I do is login to the system using an X-Terminal, run a script and exit.

Is there a way where I just login to the system, and the script runs in automatically ( like running scripts in .profile ) and the session terminates automatically after the script terminates?

Milind Shauche.

Why not schedule the backup job with crontab?

type "man crontab" for more information.
/Peter

The script is run by shift engineers and I am supposed to ensure that they are logged out of the X-term session after they execute the backup script.

Since the backup user is a superuser, logging out of the x-term is important. Else it is a security issue.

After the engineer logs into the user, if he is a telnet user the session terminates upon job completion, but if the engineer logs into a x-term session, the telnet session is terminated, and the xterm sesion is left open. My issue is how can I ensure that the xterm session is also terminated after the backup script is completed.
Since the script is interactive, I cannot run it in cron.

i was going to suggest that you run it with nohup and & to log out after it is started. but since you said the script is interactive then you could do it in the users .profile depending on what shell your using theres different ways to do it, you have it call the script and a line after that have it exit. when the script is complete the user will be logged out.

Thank you Norsk for your advice.

Adding exit after the command, would log him out of the telnet session. It works well.

My user log into a X-term and runs the script. The exit logs out his telnet session, my requirement is to log him out of the x-term session.

How do I log him out of the x=term session ?