Supervising the Network

5-28

Customizing the User Environment

Because EXIT stops the login script, make sure you put this command at the

end of the login script.

You can also use EXIT in an IF…THEN statement so that the login script

stops and exits to an external program only if a certain condition exists. If

the condition doesn’t exist, the login script skips the EXIT command and

continues executing.

If the program you are executing with the EXIT command requires any DOS

paths or NetWare search drives to be set, make sure they are speciﬁed in the

Adding EXIT to a container login script prevents other proﬁle or user login

scripts from running. Putting EXIT in a proﬁle login script prevents the user

The EXIT command works only on IBM*-compatible workstations running

DOS. Therefore, if your DOS workstation has a machine name different

from IBM_PC speciﬁed in its NET.CFG ﬁle, you must add the

PCCOMPATIBLE login script command to the login script.

For more information about the PCCOMPATIBLE command, see

“PCCOMPATIBLE” in this chapter.

Examples

• Suppose the workstation’s long machine name is IBM_PC. To execute a menu

program called TRAINING when the login script is finished, add the following

line at the end of the login script:

EXIT “NMENU TRAINING”

• If you are using a Hewlett Packard* computer and you have changed the long

machine name to HE_PAC in the NET.CFG file, add the following lines at the

end of the login script:

PCCOMPATIBLE

EXIT “NMENU TRAINING”

• Suppose you want the login script to exit to a word-processing program when the

user logs in on Mondays, but not on other days. You could add the following

IF…THEN statement to the login script:

IF DAY_OF_WEEK=“MONDAY” THEN EXIT “WP”