Hi Axel, * Axel Beckert [2015-08-09 16:57 +0200]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > > * Axel Beckert [2015-08-09 16:12 +0200]: > > > Carsten Hey wrote: > > > > Please clear console on logout if the recommended config for new > > > > users is used. > > ... > > Ok, thanks for the clarification. > > I'm mostly annoyed by such behaviour upon remote logins via SSH as > usually the whole terminal history gets lost in such cases. > > > I wonder if you still think that it's annoying if you know, that it > > only clears a console if, and only if, the parent process is > > /bin/login. > > Does SSH use /bin/login by default? (IIRC not.)
SSH does not use a console but a pseudo terminal, even if it is invoked from a console (and even if this would not be true in rare cases, the check to avoid spawning a new subprocess if SSH_CONNECTION is set would avoid running clear_console anyway). Therefore the screen would never be cleared when returning from an SSH session. I assume this answers your actual question. > So if it's really just for the Linux (or FreeBSD or Hurd :-) virtual > console, I'm fine with it. You might remember that I asked you if you had physical access to a kFreeBSD box. Now you know what I wanted to test ... > There it indeed makes sense. Just not for SSH logins ... This would not be console ;) > ... or calling "zsh" or "zsh -l" .... This could be described as subshell (i.e., the parent process is a shell) and therefore clear_console would not be run. Pasting the code that would be part of the recommended .zlogout could help to clarify some things, but there's still a GPL'd triviality in it. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
