[ale] ssh-agent processes

[James P. Kinney III]

I think you need to look hard at the configuration of ssh-agent. Also
look at creation times for those files. The should correpond to logins
on the machine. If you have had several X crashes (nautilus is flakey
around the edges sometimes), that may leave dangling ssh-agent processes
lying around. 

It shouldn't hurt to "kill -9 ssh-agent". At worst you'll need to
reformat all the drives and reinstall from scratch.

Just kidding!!

Really at worst, if you are the only person on the box and you log out
of X and drop to a root shell, killing all ssh-agent processes is no
problem.

Look and see who owns those process. (ps aux |grep ssh-agent). If it's
all owned by your login, modify your [xgk]dm logon script to kill off
any stale ssh-agent process owned by the login id.

Also, look at upgrading (or down-grading) openssh. It should be handling
all this better so it may be a bug.

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 16:47, David Corbin wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> >Look in /tmp/ssh-XXXXX for a bunch of agent.<pid> files. If they are
> >there, you are having aconnectivity problem that is not cleaning up
> >after itself. 
> >
> It's this one.  What can I do about it?
> 
> 
> >If they are not there, you are having a configuration
> >problem with ssh-agent. 
> >
> >On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 10:44, David Corbin wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I seem to have a build-up of ssh-agent processes on my system.  I start 
> >>this in .bash_profile (eval `ssh-agent`), but it doesn't appear to clean-up.
> >>
> >>Ideas?
> >>
> >>David.
> >>
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