Use case for logout of shell

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
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Hello Experts,

I have a use case -

Currently, in my .profile I have added "bash" at the end so while logging in, it will be bashed as well. Which is working fine and no issues.

But while logging out, I have hit exit two times like 1st exit will come out of bash shell and 2nd exit will come out of the server.

So is there a way, that I can log out of the server with one exit from bash?

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Why the need at all to run bash from .profile ? What's your login shell? Could you ask your sys admin to change your login shell to bash .

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If you can't get your admin to change your login shell, you should also just be able to change the last line in your .profile from something like:

bash

to something like:

exec bash

Adding the exec will cause your login shell to be replaced by bash so you won't need to also quit your login shell after you quit bash .

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This is fantastic. It worked!

I was on vacation, so couldn`t respond on time.

Thank you so much.

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:b:solution found. This can be closed.

some reason i am not seeing the tag option .
@ Admin , if you don`t mind , while you are closing , can you tag this with "solved"

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why not chsh?