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Logging out via AppleScript

From Chris Nebel of Apple’s AppleScript Engineering group

ignoring application responses
  tell application “loginwindow” to <>
end ignoring

The double pointy brackets around the raw event call should be replaced by option-backslash and shift-option-backslash.The “rlgo” is short for “really log out”; if you want the “are you sure you want to log out” dialog, use aevtlogo instead. A future version of AppleScript will have a real command similar to “shut down”.