RE: logout from gnome-session over ssh

["Phil Betts" <Phil dot Betts at heis dot co dot uk>]

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

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