Systemd Linger
Systemd Linger July 24, 2026July 24, 2026| etbeSystemd Linger| 0 Comment| 17:48 Categories : Linux Killing Processes One of the features of systemd that is most controversial is the option to kill user processes when the user logs out. That initially killed screen/tmux/nohup processes too. In recent Debian releases the default configuration of systemd-logind (the login manager for systemd) is to allow processes to keep running, the configuration file /etc/systemd/logind.conf has an option KillUserProcesses that can be enabled to have user processes killed.
- ▪Systemd Linger July 24, 2026July 24, 2026| etbeSystemd Linger| 0 Comment| 17:48 Categories : Linux Killing Processes One of the features of systemd that is most controversial is the option to kill user processes when the user logs out.
- ▪That initially killed screen/tmux/nohup processes too.
- ▪In recent Debian releases the default configuration of systemd-logind (the login manager for systemd) is to allow processes to keep running, the configuration file /etc/systemd/logind.conf has an option KillUserProcesses that can be enabled
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| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:43:13 +0000 |
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Systemd Linger July 24, 2026July 24, 2026| etbeSystemd Linger| 0 Comment| 17:48 Categories : Linux Killing Processes One of the features of systemd that is most controversial is the option to kill user processes when the user logs out. That initially killed screen/tmux/nohup processes too. In recent Debian releases the default configuration of systemd-logind (the login manager for systemd) is to allow processes to keep running, the configuration file /etc/systemd/logind.conf has an option KillUserProcesses that can be enabled to have user processes killed. If you do that then there are options to only kill processes for certain users and to exclude some users (default to excluding root).
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