Re: backing up
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 21:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 20:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Or you add a flag to a config in all /home/user_dirs, where .thunderbird
> > should be copied and check for this flag. FWIW the user name can be
> > different from the /home/dir's name. You still could do this and that,
> > but perhaps you can use ~ and writing to another user's home dir is
> > impossible. I don't know "how" the post session script is started,
> > someone using GDM might know it. A good reason not to reply off-list.
>
> Or the most simple, from that post script run a script in ~. If there's
> no script, nothing will happen (anyway check if the file exists). If
> there's a script, than it's executed for explicit this user. It's
> executing what the individual user wants to happen.
IOW
>>> frank@sid:/etc/gdm3/PostSession$
>>> cat Default
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> cp -R /home/frank/.thunderbird thunderbird.backup
>>> exit 0
/etc/gdm3/PostSession/Default
#!/bin/sh
sh ~/a_script
exit 0
/home/user_dir/a_script
#!/bin/sh
cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/thunderbird.backup
exit 0
How to check if the file exists is described in the Internet.
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