Anyway to auto delete trash

Hello,
We have a suite of macs that students use for their studies and we are trying to reduce some space on our servers, an issue is that students are not empty their trash, they put items in the trash but then leave it sat there, wondered if there any settings that could be put in place so that that is auto deleted upon log off or as soon as they drop an item in trash it is emptied?
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks

yes, a logout hook sounds just the thing for it. it will empty trash when a user logs out.
If you have OS X server this can be easily managed from the server via workgroup manager.
you can also do it by hand as follows.
log in as an admin user.
use TextEdit to make a *plain text* file with content
#! /bin/bash
rm -rf /Users/$1/.Trash/*
save it as logoutscript.sh somewhere safe, say in /Library/Scripts.
then change permissions on this file to make it executable. run this in terminal
chmod 755 /library/scripts/logoutscript.sh
then make a logout hook. run the following terminal command
sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook /library/scripts/logoutscript.sh
you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal.
more on login and logout hooks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2420?viewlocale=en_US

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i'm having a nightmare with a new IMAP account, and need some help !
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