On Thursday 20 Feb 03, Jim Kleckner writes: > Thank you for the suggestion. > > David Starks-Browning wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 Feb 03, Jim Kleckner writes: > [snip] > > If *all* shells source that line, then you have the problem that the > > first one to exit will kill ssh-agent, and maybe you don't want that. > > You could put something a bit more sophisticated in your .bash_profile > > (or whatever) to identify a "master" shell, depending on your > > requirements. > > Unfortunately, this is exactly what keychain is for - > to start the agent in one shell and then share access > from many shells. I start up and shut down many rxvt/bash > shells during the day without having to provide my > passphrase. Stopping the agent with keychain is easy by > just typing "keychain -k". I forget to do that just > about every time.
Your exit trap function could be something that checks to see if it's the last rxvt window remaining, and if so, runs "keychain -k". (I agree, this is a workaround. It would be nicer if ssh-agent would die quickly and quietly at Windows logout or shutdown. I don't know if that's possible.) Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
