i noticed the other day that on the linux boxes i log into in the lab
at school, a bunch of ssh-agent processes are left running after a
while -- like, hours after i log out, they'll still be there. i asked
the sysadmin about this, and he pointed me to the different ways of
calling ssh-agent in my .xsession -- with 'exec' or 'eval'. i'm using
eval, and that was apparently creating these abandoned processes; he
uses exec, and no extra processes are created.
the only problem is this: using 'exec', i can't even log in. i type
my username and password, and then it kicks me back to the login
screen.
this happens on both the debian and redhat systems in the lab. the
relevant lines from my .xsession are below:
if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "/usr/X11R6/bin" ; then
PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
fi
xmodmap /home/nori/.keymaps/dvorak.pke
exec `ssh-agent`
ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa </dev/null
fvwm2
thanks!
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