On 4/6/2010 2:04 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > Sorry, you missed the subject of that sentence - I meant, why does it not > stop the one I explicitly started? Are you saying that ssh-agent, with no > commands, implicitly backgrounds itself? Yes, someone pointed out that the manual says exactly that a few times already. > And, for the bigger picture, why should it? If I'm logging off, there's no > reason for it to keep running. Any sessions that required it are either > established, or shut down. That's one of the things it can do. If you don't like it, use some other option. I assume it can feed cron jobs and the like when you aren't logged in if you want - but I've always just made keys with no passphrase when I know the commands will be automated. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com