On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:52:58PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > You want to run ssh-agent in the parent login shell, so later shells > inherit the SSH_AGENT_ID and SSH_AGENT_PID environment variables. If > you use bash, then .login or .bash_login should contain something like: > > eval `ssh-agent` >
A puzzle: I don't have either .login or .bash_login in my ~ directory. I do have .profile Is there any difference? Also I used to have .bash_profile But that disappeared about the time I moved to Lenny, I think. thanks -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org