Re: [gdm-list] Logout script does not always complete

[tjoen <tjoen dds nl>]

On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 03:51 +0100, Jaap Winius wrote:
> All of my workstations run Debian squeeze and gdm with login and  
> logout scripts. The latter is a bash shell script, called from  
> /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default, and is located on the file server,  
> available via NFS. It's supposed to create a "logout file" in a  
> directory on the file server.
> 
> Usually, everything works fine. But, every once in a while, and only  
> when a user elects to logout and shut down the workstation at the same  
> time, that logout file is not created. I assume this is because the  
> network connection is stopped before the logout script has a chance to  
> complete.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a good way to ensure that my logout script always  
> completes before the network connection is stopped?

Try closing down network only after gdm has stopped in initscripts