3.3 Login Scripts Commands by Task

This list identifies which specific login script commands to use, depending on what you need your login scripts to accomplish.

3.3.1 Network Connection and Resource Access

Action	Command
Establish a connection between a workstation and a NetWare server	Section 3.6, ATTACH
Set a user's current context in the eDirectory tree	Section 3.8, CONTEXT
Change the default drive while the login script is executing This is not available for Novell Client for Linux.	Section 3.10, DRIVE
Map drives and search drives to network directories or to map to eDirectory objects such as cluster-enabled volumes	Section 3.18, MAP
Attach to another eDirectory tree within the network and access its resources	Section 3.28, TREE

Action	Command
Allow the user to terminate execution of the login script	Section 3.7, BREAK
Emit a phaser sound or beep	Section 3.13, FIRE or FIRE PHASERS
Execute a portion of the login script out of the regular sequence	Section 3.14, GOTO
Perform an action only under certain conditions	Section 3.15, IF...THEN
Execute independent files or another object's login script as a part of the login script currently being processed	Section 3.16, INCLUDE
Prevent the default user login script from running and do not create any user login scripts in a container or profile login script	Section 3.19, NO_DEFAULT
Create a pause in the execution of the login script	Section 3.20, PAUSE
Set or override a user's assigned or command line-specified profile script in a container script	Section 3.21, PROFILE
Set a home server where the bindery login script is read from This is not available for Novell Client for Linux.	Section 3.24, SCRIPT_SERVER
Change the order in which %n variables are interpreted in the login script	Section 3.27, SHIFT

Action	Command
Set an environment variable to a specified value	Section 3.25, SET
Set the workstation time equal to the time on the NetWare server that the workstation first connects to This is not available for Novell Client for Linux.	Section 3.26, SET_TIME

Action

Command

Set an environment variable to a specified value

Set the workstation time equal to the time on the NetWare server that the workstation first connects to

This is not available for Novell Client for Linux.

Action	Command
Execute a program that is external to the login script	Section 3.4, #
Execute a program that is external to the login script and then continue with the script	Section 3.5, @
Show the contents of a text file when the user logs in	Section 3.9, DISPLAY
Terminate execution of the login script	Section 3.11, EXIT
Show the text of a word processing file when the user logs in In Linux, the file displays the binary form with all commands visible. It is better to use the DISPLAY command in Linux.	Section 3.12, FDISPLAY
Display messages on the workstation screen when a user logs in to the network	Section 3.29, WRITE

Action	Command
Display the last time the user logged in	LASTLOGINTIME
Include explanatory text in the login script or to keep a line from being executed during testing	REMARK