New Direction (and url!)

It's been suggested by several of my friends that I turn this space into random snippets of linux/programming knowledge. I make no commitments as to the frequency of said posts. I'll try to throw things up here as I'm inspired. Also, you get bonus points if you find this at the new url.

So, without further ado:

If you're in a situation where ssh-agent isn't running farther up in your process tree automatically, here's how to get the same functionality out of .bashrc.

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

function start_agent {
    echo "Initialising new SSH agent..."
    /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
    echo succeeded
    chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
    . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
    /usr/bin/ssh-add;
}

# Source SSH settings, if applicable

if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
    . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
#ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin
    ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
        start_agent;
    }
else
    start_agent;
fi