Ahh - it took me a while to figure out what might have been obvious: byobu-janitor needs to be run from a fresh terminal which has the original value for $SSH_AUTH_SOCK. It also needs --force:
$ byobu-janitor --force The range of configuration things it looks at is a bit scary, so I think I'll stick to the manual symlink I mentioned in my last post as a workaround for now. Still not sure why the symlink isn't there after reboot/startup.... -- SSH agent not hooked up on first launch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528967 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs