rxvt dialog at shutdown suggests failure to exit due to ssh-agent?

[Jim Kleckner]

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.

This is not a big problem.  I just thought someone
might know how to "strongly detach" the process while
at the same time allowing stdin interaction for the
passphrase.

Jim


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