Your message dated Tue, 19 May 2026 21:51:56 +0200
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and subject line Not reproducible in current unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #440066,
regarding screen: man page says -wipe checks hostname, but it does not
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Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-3
Severity: normal
The man page says:
-wipe [match]
does the same as "screen -ls", but removes destroyed
sessions instead of marking them as `dead'. An
unreachable session is considered dead, when its name
matches either the name of the local host, or the
explicitly given parameter, if any. See the -r flag for a
description how to construct matches.
But that code is actually conditional on SOCKDIR_IS_LOCAL_TO_HOST and
it's disabled:
/*
* Define this if the SOCKDIR is not shared between hosts.
*/
#define SOCKDIR_IS_LOCAL_TO_HOST
I mistakenly used -wipe on a system with an NFS-mounted $HOME; it removed
all my live screens from other hosts.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20070812-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
screen recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
screen/old_upgrade_prompt: false
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 5.0.1-2
Hi,
I tested this against the current version in unstable (5.0.1-2) and
cannot reproduce the reported behaviour.
In 5.0.1-2, "screen -wipe" honours host-based filtering for stale
sockets:
- Stale entries matching the local host suffix are removed
- Entries for other hosts are kept as "Remote or dead"
So the behaviour now matches the manpage description.
Given the age of the bug, this was likely fixed in an earlier version,
but I have not checked.
Cheers,
Peter Dey
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