[X2Go-Dev] loginctl 'enable-linger' causes systemd --user to respawn on boot

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/16/19 14:11, Montjoy, Robert (montjoy) wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> At one time "loginctl  enable-linger" was added to the x2gostartagent to 
> make sure the systemd did not kill the x2go process on disconnect. This 
> has had the probably undesired affect of having systemd --user username 
> being executed on boot for every x2go user. At the last boot about 70 
> processes (one for systemd and one for pam) were spawned. This is 
> probably not what we want. Is there a better way to handle the systemd 
> termination issue? Should something like
> 
> systemd-run --scope --user x2goagent .....
> 
> be used instead? Or can x2go cleanup this entry on termination? Maybe 
> have x2gocleansessions do it?
> 
> Note: I will probably cleanup /var/lib/systemd/linger on boot by 
> executing rm -f /var/lib/systemd/linger/* but that it is more of a 
> "hammer" approach than anything else.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Rob

I just noticed this issue on our systems.  I think switching to 
systemd-run is likely the better way to go.  The attached patch is what 
I am testing on our systems.

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