RE: logout from gnome-session over ssh
On Friday, July 01, 2005 4:30 AM, Ariel Millennium Thornton wrote: On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:35:33 -0400 Jerome Asselin wrote: From a cygwin bash shell, I run these commands: Xwin export DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y remoteserver -l user gnome-session This works fine until I try to logout from gnome-session. Logging out doesn't kill nautilus nor ssh (nor firefox). I have to manually kill the ssh command to terminate the gnome-session. How can I make it so that I can cleanly logout from gnome-session? This seems like a bug with ssh. I get the same thing ssh'ing from Linux to Linux and from Windows to Linux. The problem is that the ssh session won't end until every process started by it ends. If you're using ssh as the client command for starting the X server, one workaround is to log out normally, wait until only the persistent processes are running, then hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill the server. If someone knows the real solution, I'd like to know it too. What I present is only a workaround, not a solution. -ArielMT IIRC, my old Mandrake installation used to have, somewhere in its labyrinthine set of login scripts, a shopt huponexit on with a comment to the effect that it fixed the ssh logout problem. You could try putting something like the following in your ~/.bash_profile (assuming bash is your login shell in /etc/passwd) if [ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ];then shopt huponexit on fi I'm not sure how much you can rely on the SSH_CONNECTION variable being set, YMMV. Phil -- ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: logout from gnome-session over ssh
Phil Betts Phil.Betts at heis.co.uk writes: ...snip... IIRC, my old Mandrake installation used to have, somewhere in its labyrinthine set of login scripts, a shopt huponexit on with a comment to the effect that it fixed the ssh logout problem. You could try putting something like the following in your ~/.bash_profile (assuming bash is your login shell in /etc/passwd) if [ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ];then shopt huponexit on fi I'm not sure how much you can rely on the SSH_CONNECTION variable being set, YMMV. Phil As you suggested, I've tried running shopt -s huponexit on the remote server I've ssh'ed to, but when I run gnome-session afterwards I still cannot completely logout interactively from gnome-session. For example, the firefox windows remain open after I attempt to logout interactively. Any other suggestions beside Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? Thanks, Jerome
Re: logout from gnome-session over ssh
Hello. This seems like a bug with ssh. I get the same thing ssh'ing from Linux to Linux and from Windows to Linux. The problem is that the ssh session won't end until every process started by it ends. If you're using ssh as the client command for starting the X server, one workaround is to log out normally, wait until only the persistent processes are running, then hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill the server. If someone knows the real solution, I'd like to know it too. What I present is only a workaround, not a solution. -ArielMT On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:35:33 -0400 Jerome Asselin wrote: I want to be able to run gnome-session on a remote linux server from a Windows XP workstation. I also want to have decent security, so I'm trying to avoid using XDMCP. I've just installed cygwin, selecting these packages (and default dependencies): openssh, vim, xorg-x11-base. From a cygwin bash shell, I run these commands: Xwin export DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y remoteserver -l user gnome-session This works fine until I try to logout from gnome-session. Logging out doesn't kill nautilus nor ssh (nor firefox). I have to manually kill the ssh command to terminate the gnome-session. How can I make it so that I can cleanly logout from gnome-session? Thanks. -- Jerome Asselin, Agent de recherche, RHCE CHUM -- Centre de recherche 3875 rue St-Urbain, 3e etage // Montreal QC H2W 1V1 Tel.: 514-890-8000 Poste 15914; Fax: 514-412-7106 -- The most humbling achievement of the past millennium, I believe, is the evolution of the simplest form of communication: the written letter. From courier to post to telegram to fax to email, each advancement has made the awesome power of writing more accessible than ever before. -Ariel Millennium Thornton, Spokesman and Mascot, Thornton 2 Productions
