Re: Can cron jobs share ssh-agent?

From: Neil W Rickert (rickert+nn_at_cs.niu.edu)
Date: 05/21/03 

Date: 21 May 2003 12:17:28 GMT

"Joe Harrison" <joe.harrison@teamware.antisp4m.co.uk> writes:

>However even typing up-arrow / return every day can be too arduous for us
>notoriously bone-idle lollygagging sysadmins :) and I would really like to
>run it completely unattended as a cron job.

If ssh-agent is already running, your cron job need only define
SSH_AUTH_SOCK in the environment to the appropriate value. When you
startup ssh-agent, you could put that info into a file for your cron
script to use.

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