Is there a way to tell ssh that it is OK that the target of a command may be one of several machines, not necessarily the one it stuck in ~/.ssh/known_hosts last time around? This might be due to DNS round-robin or an HA failover. Setting StrictHostKeyChecking to no in /etc/ssh/ssh_config allows commands to complete but it still prints the warning which confuses people. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com