Re: Session dies after logout

[Lluís Vilanova]

Axel Beckert writes:

> Hi,
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 05:35:23PM +0100, Ed Neville wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 05:18:41PM +0200, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
>> > Hi there. After my latest update on some debian machines we use at work 
>> > (mostly
>> > running testing), all screen sessions die after users log out.
>> 
>> Blame systemd.

> Exactly. See https://bugs.debian.org/825394 -- fixed in the Debian
> package of systemd, version 230-2. You might need to reboot after
> updating the package, though.

>> You will need to enable the linger option.

> I read somewhere (but forgot where) that this does not completely
> suffice.

It's systemd's fault indeed. Here's the allegedly "proper way" to do it (as fair
as I could find):

  # execute once on each machine
  loginctl enable-linger

  # and painfully execute this every time you want screen to survive
  systemd-run --scope --user screen

Thanks a lot for the responses and sorry for the fuss.


Lluis