I've noticed that my ssh-agent process seems to stop working with 'ssh-add' after a few days
or so. Issuing 'ssh-add' from an xfce4-terminal results in the error message
"Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."
Why is this? There seems to be a myriad of ssh-agent processes running.
Is there a standard way to restart ssh-agent? I belive killing process
27850 will dump by Xsession from previous experience.
mylo 2594 1 0 Sep05 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
mylo 2614 1 0 Sep05 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
mylo 2629 1 0 Sep05 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
mylo 2641 1 0 Sep05 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
mylo 2659 1 0 Sep05 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
mylo 10768 1 0 Aug24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
mylo 12904 1 0 Sep08 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
mylo 13036 1 0 Sep08 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
mylo 13292 1 0 Aug24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
mylo 13473 1 0 Sep02 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent -s
mylo 13907 19346 0 19:41 pts/5 00:00:00 grep ssh-agent
mylo 27850 27796 0 Aug25 ? 00:00:06 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /bin/bash /home/mylo/.xsession
mylo 27891 1 0 Aug25 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
mylo 29792 1 0 Sep01 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
mylo 30159 1 0 Sep11 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent