How to forward Powershell.Exiting event when remoting on Linux

Question

I have a script on linux that connects to a remote. When exiting, I have to exit twice (once from the remote, and once from the local). I would like to connect these two, so that I have to exit only once.

Here is what I hoped would work:

pwsh -NoExit -Command '
Register-EngineEvent -SourceIdentifier PowerShell.Exiting -Action {
  Write-Host "Received Exiting"
}
$creds = Get-Credential -UserName sysadm;
$pss = New-PSSession -ComputerName remote-pc -Authentication Negotiate -Credential $creds;
Invoke-Command -Session $pss {
  Register-EngineEvent -SourceIdentifier PowerShell.Exiting -Forward;
}
Enter-PSSession $pss
'

Based on the Register-EngineEvent docs I expected to see the message - and manually creating the event worked:

...
[remote-pc] PS C:\Users\sysadm\Documents> $null = New-Event PowerShell.Exiting
Received Exiting
[remote-pc] PS C:\Users\sysadm\Documents> exit
# Expecting a message here...
PS /home/local-user > $null = New-Event PowerShell.Exiting
Received Exiting
PS /home/local-user > exit
Received Exiting

I hope I was able to describe my problem.

• Why isn't exiting the session sending the PowerShell.Exiting event?

• If not via PowerShell.Exiting , is it possible to achive the "double-exit" in an other way?

Answer 1

I don't think you need event handling in your case:
Just place an exit statement after Enter-PSSession $pss , and your outer PowerShell session will exit too:

pwsh -NoExit -Command '
  $creds = Get-Credential -UserName sysadm;
  $pss = New-PSSession -ComputerName remote-pc -Authentication Negotiate -Credential $creds;
  Enter-PSSession $pss
  exit
'