LM19.3 default behaviour .. SSH: Logout clears entire terminal window?! ☹

[BG405]

This is unexpected and quite frankly not good to implement without a tip=off of some sort. When working on a system remotely, one does not expect acquired data in your Terminal window(s) to be immediately and irrevocably removed without warning upon logout, inckuding eveything you were working on prior to the SSH session.

Fix is as follows (on remote machine). Comment out those pesky lines:

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[brian@*****-MS-7693 ~] $ cat .bash_logout
# ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits.

# when leaving the console clear the screen to increase privacy

#if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then
#    [ -x /usr/bin/clear_console ] && /usr/bin/clear_console -q
#fi
[brian@******-MS-7693 ~] $ inxi -S
System:
  Host: *******-MS-7693 Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 0
  Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
[brian@*****-MS-7693 ~] $

Just a FYI if you do remote admin on Mint systems. I've obfuscated the hostnames to protect the innocent.

[smurphos]

Odd - I don't have that issue - the remote is a minimal ubuntu server, accessing with gnome-terminal. I've copied the terminal content having exited the SSH session...

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steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ ssh 192.168.1.18
Last login: Sun Aug  9 07:36:50 2020 from 192.168.1.26
steve@mint-toshiba:~$ cat .bash_logout
# ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits.

# when leaving the console clear the screen to increase privacy

if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then
    [ -x /usr/bin/clear_console ] && /usr/bin/clear_console -q
fi
steve@mint-toshiba:~$ echo $SHLVL
1
steve@mint-toshiba:~$ exit
logout
Connection to 192.168.1.18 closed.

clear_console shouldn't do anything in a regular terminal emulator - it's for TTY's

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steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ clear_console
clear_console: terminal is not a console

[BG405]

clear_console shouldn't do anything in a regular terminal emulator - it's for TTY's

Odd. It cleared mine, so I commented those lines out & it didn't do it from then. I wouldn't think it makes any difference but this was from my Manjaro installation.

As you can imagine, it was a bit of a surprise when the terminal window contents vanished on logout!