m.roth at 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. -- Bowie