Re: [CentOS] ssh-agent

m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

Oh, and the man page for ssh-agent reads, as the last line before "Files": "The agent exits automatically when the command given on the command line terminates." Which means, to me, that when the xterm that I started it in is closed, it should end, unless there's some interpretation other than plain English there.

That's assuming that you gave it a command when you started it. If you look earlier in the file, it specifies:

"If a commandline is given, this is executed as a subprocess of the agent. When the command dies, so does the agent."

If you don't specify a command when you start ssh-agent, it will just run until you kill it.