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Prevent Logoff from Killing tmux Session
This "feature" has existed in systemd previously, but the systemd developers decided to effect a change in the default, to enable the setting for termination of child processes upon log out of a ...
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System service running as user is terminated on logout
For me the solution was loginctl enable-linger username. Without this the service would die when the user logged out. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Automatic_start-...
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Where is TMOUT being set in CentOS 7? How can I disable it?
To disable the time out I changed the file /etc/profile.d/local.sh.
I commented out lines that were setting the timeout variable and making it readonly.
vi /etc/profile.d/local.sh
#export TMOUT=43200
...
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System service running as user is terminated on logout
You can change logind configuration:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf
[Login]
…
KillUserProcesses=no
…
This also changes behavior for other services and background processes (like screen, tmux). See issue #...
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How to run a command every time that I exit a zsh shell (including non-login shells)
Add a function like
function shellExit {
# Your commands
}
along with a trap such as
trap shellExit EXIT
in .zshrc
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Issue with SSH Client Alive Interval in sshd_config
ClientAlive* are not designed to terminate healthy connections. It's a myth they are. Please read this other answer of mine to learn what the options are really for. In a nutshell, they are for:
...
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How to log out all inactive terminal sessions in GNU/Linux?
TMOUT causes idle interactive shells to exit, it doesn’t close desktop sessions.
If you don’t want to have to remember to log out from your “rescue” VTs, it seems like a good solution to me: your ...
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Prevent Logoff from Killing tmux Session
The missing bit can be found on SU:
First: Keep the $USER's SystemD instance running after logoff:
sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER
Second: Reboot. (According to man loginctl this becomes ...
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How to reboot/shut down gracefully in Awesome WM?
wmctrl may help you (package name wmctrl).
wmctrl helps you interact with a EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager. I'm not sure is AwesomeWM fits this description, but if it does, this answer would ...
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How to log myself out of ssh, from a bash script?
If you want to logout after the successful completion of /path/to/shell-script.sh, use:
/path/to/shell-script.sh && logout
A ruder way to do it would be to have the script kill the parent:
...
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Which file is read and executed when interactive non-login bash session exits?
None.
To have the interactive non-login shell source a file upon exiting, set a trap in .bashrc:
shopt -q login_shell || trap '. "$HOME/.bash_non-login_logout"' EXIT
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How to close XServer session via command
I just run
killall xinit
I don't put anything into $$ because bash uses $$ for the pid of the shell.
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Does exiting a login shell necessarily log out of the OS?
In bash speak, "login shell" means a shell invoked with the -l flag, or where the first character of argument 0 begins with a -. (See man bash INVOCATION section).
In your example, you can see ...
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What processes can survive logging out of Linux, and what not?
I don't know how systemd (especially /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind) is involved in OS logout process.
Following is my partial answers:
The login process wait() on the login shell process, and ...
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How to run a command every time that I exit a zsh shell (including non-login shells)
There's an example in this zsh guide which sources ~/.zlogout for non-login shells
using the TRAPEXIT function. This seems to be exactly what you want.
TRAPEXIT() {
# commands to run here, e.g. if ...
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What is the meaning and command executed on Ctrl+Alt+Del in Linux?
The Linux kernel can either hard reboot or send SIGINT the init process upon Ctrl + Alt + Del
The Linux kernel itself allows two possible behaviors from Ctrl-Alt-Del:
reboot immediately
send SIGINT ...
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How to run script on XFCE4 logon and logoff?
Settings -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart
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Automatic log out while working in Cent OS Stream 8
my two cents:
you may need to set the environment variable TMOUT to 0
into the system file
/etc/profile.d/local.sh
for further info you can read this question and the accepted answer.
(while for ...
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Mounting directories on demand or until logged
Regarding a possible solution resorting to some logout script, LighDM conforms to the freedesktop specification which, given this setting :
[SeatDefaults]
…
session-cleanup-script=command
…
Will ...
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Logout other users from KDE/plasma as root
OK, figured it out:
su -c "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/<numerical-user-id>/bus qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 3 2" "<username>"
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Challenge: unable to logout of linux
type exit
Press Ctrl + D
kill or kill -9 your_shell_PID
poweroff which will technically log you out
Unplug from the mains
Blow it all up
Cut all the wires
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Debian: logging out causes services to become unavailable
Almost a year later. You solve this by modifying /etc/systemd/logind.conf setting KillUserProcesses=yes. It still takes around 15 seconds to terminate all the processes of the session, but they stop ...
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How to restrict a user from using tty?
You can add entries to /etc/security/access.conf which disallow logins to the TTYs like so:
-:ALL EXCEPT root
There's other examples in this file if you're looking for additional use cases. NOTE: The ...
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Execute script prior to cinnamon logout (unsing MDM or other display manager)
If you switch to LightDM as I was suggesting, then it should be simple.
Set the following parameter in the config file:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
session-cleanup-script = Script to run when quitting ...
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What is the meaning and command executed on Ctrl+Alt+Del in Linux?
Contemporary Linux distros use systemd instead of SysV init. Behaviour of ctrl-alt-delete combo is handled by ctrl-alt-del.target, which is by default linked to reboot.target, but could be set to any ...
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Execute code in a logout script if exiting from a particular directory?
I like many of my shell scripts portable and shell-agnostic, so I prefer trapping EXIT over using the bash-specific .bash_logout method. And for a truly self-contained solution it's best not having to ...
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