Cleaning up after a script on shut down

[Ray Parrish]

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 23.08.2009, 16:22 -0700 schrieb Ray Parrish:
>
>   
>> I just need to remove two files on shutdown, but their names change with 
>> the PID of the script.
>>     
>
> if its a shell script, use the trap call at the top of your code, it
> will automatically run the cleanup function if it catches one of the
> listed signals (1 2 3 6 9 15):
>
> --- snip ---
>
> trap cleanup 1 2 3 6 9 15
>
> cleanup()
> {
>       echo "I: Cleaning up..."
>       rm -f $your_pid_file1
>       rm -f $your_pid_file2
> }
>
> --- snap ---
>
> ciao
>   
Hello,

The scrpit has a sleep timer in a loop. Will that trap work even if the 
sleep timer is in progress when Ubuntu is shut down?

Later, Ray Parrish


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