John Lagrue wrote: > I tried that, and monitored the ssh.trace file with tail-f in another > window. There were no obvious signs of error, only what looks like a > child starting and then exiting. Mind you, it's been a fair few years > since I last looked at a trace file! lace your /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile files with some `echo "I'm here..."` kind of statements... see if its bombing somewhere