On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:06:53 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > ... I just hope the remote system isn't running systemd, if so, you > > > have to do some additional tweaking before screen or tmux work. I > > > know someone who was bitten hard by this. Apparently systemd by > > > default closes all running processes of a user on logout. > > > > I've never seen this and I regularly update systemd computers using > > tmux. > > It is a configurable option. I can't imagine that many distros enable > it by default since it is likely to be shocking to anybody who > actually knows how to use screen, and pointless for anybody who does > not. :) > > To enable it set KillUserProcesses=yes in /etc/systemd/logind.conf
Thanks for that, now I know which man page to check it all makes sense. The man page does say that it defaults to off. I agree that there wouldn't be much point in a general purpose distro overriding this default but I can see times it would be useful. > If you do use it there are ways to make exceptions for particular > processes. -- Neil Bothwick WYTYSYDG - What you thought you saw, you didn't get.
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