Changeset 6545b53f

Timestamp:

04/30/2020 09:00:35 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

f37e8f37

Parents:

93817f4

Message:

Document options to prevent elogind to kill user processes when a user logs out.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@23056 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general/sysutils/elogind.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/sysutils/elogind.xml

@@ -205 +205 @@
 
     <para>
+      <option>-Ddefault-kill-user-processes=false</option>: Configure whether
+      the processes of a user should be killed when the user logs out. The
+      default is <emphasis>true</emphasis>, but this defeats the traditional
+      use of <command>screen</command> or <command>tmux</command>. This can
+      also be changed in the configuration file (see below).
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
       <command>ln -s ...</command>: These commands install symlinks so that
       software packages find systemd compatible library and headers.
@@ -214 +222 @@
   <title>Configuring elogind</title>
 
-    <para>
-      Each user will need to register a user session using
-      <application>Linux-PAM</application> at login. The
-      <filename>/etc/pam.d/system-session</filename> file needs to
-      be modified and a new file needs to be created in order for
-      <command>elogind</command> to work correctly. Run the following
-      commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
-    </para>
+    <sect3 id="elogind-config">
+      <title>Config File</title>
+      <para>
+        <filename>/etc/elogind/logind.conf</filename>
+      </para>
+
+      <indexterm zone="elogind elogind-config">
+        <primary
+        sortas="e-etc-elogind-logind.conf">/etc/elogind/logind.conf</primary>
+      </indexterm>
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
+
+      <para>
+        The installed file <filename>/etc/elogind/logind.conf</filename>
+        contains all the possible options with their defaults, commented
+        out. You may wish to disable killing user processes when the user logs
+        out, by running, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+        user:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>sed -e '/\[Login\]/a KillUserProcesses=no' \
+    -i /etc/elogind/logind.conf</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>
+        Each user will need to register a user session using
+        <application>Linux-PAM</application> at login. The
+        <filename>/etc/pam.d/system-session</filename> file needs to
+        be modified and a new file needs to be created in order for
+        <command>elogind</command> to work correctly. Run the following
+        commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+      </para>
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/pam.d/system-session &lt;&lt; "EOF" &amp;&amp;
@@ -250 +283 @@
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
+    </sect3>
   </sect2>
 

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Document options to prevent elogind to kill
+          all user processes when the user logs out. This recovers the
+          traditional behavior of commands like nohup or screen.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[renodr] - Update to cryptsetup-2.3.2. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;13482">#13482</ulink>.</para>