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I regularly ssh to a centos 5 box. Somehow they keys are mapped so that control+d will log me out of my current shell. If I am sudo'ed to another use it puts me back to the previous user. If I am not sudo'ed it just disconnects me. How can I keep this from happening? I regularly use control+d to cancel out of the python interpreter and sometimes I accidentally press it more than once.

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You're looking for the IGNOREEOF environment variable if you use bash:

IGNOREEOF

Controls the action of an interactive shell on receipt of an EOF character as the sole input. If set, the value is the number of consecutive EOF characters which must be typed as the first characters on an input line before bash exits. If the variable exists but does not have a numeric value, or has no value, the default value is 10. If it does not exist, EOF signifies the end of input to the shell.

So export IGNOREEOF=42 and you'll have to press Ctrl+D fourty-two times before it actually quits your shell.

POSIX set has an -o ignoreoef setting too. So consult your shell's documentation to see if your shell has this (it should), and to check its exact semantics.

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good to know - thanks for sharing! – cwd Dec 24 '11 at 19:00
Nice, gives a "Use exit to leave the shell" message, at least on Ubuntu. Being su'd into a user, you probably don't want to inadvertently leave it, esp if the parent user is root level. – Fiasco Labs Dec 24 '11 at 19:54
I personally find that really annoying, so I don't set it anywhere. Found out about these while trying to disable that behavior :) – Mat Dec 24 '11 at 19:59
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If you really don't like having Ctrl-d, then you could remove the eof character in the terminal controls.

stty eof undef

After this, Cntl-d will be any other control character.

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I just tried that in a terminal (urxvt) with bash, and in a plain console, and it did not work. – Mat Dec 24 '11 at 19:56
Hmm... that used to work and docs still say that it does. An alternative would be to use <kbd>Ctrl-[</kvd>. – Arcege Dec 24 '11 at 20:30
This would also make it no longer exit from python. – psusi Dec 27 '11 at 16:04

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