Unfortunately, the code created tons of ssh-agents, which was unfortunate.

Here is a version that behaves much better:

  1 #!/bin/bash
  2 export SSH_RECENT="$HOME/.ssh/recent"
  3 [ -f $SSH_RECENT ] && eval `cat $SSH_RECENT`
  4 RUNNING_AGENTS=0
  5 if [ ! -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ]
  6 then
  7 RUNNING_AGENTS=`ps -p $SSH_AGENT_PID | grep -v CMD | wc -l`
  8 fi
  9 if [ $RUNNING_AGENTS -lt 1 -a $UID -ne 0 ]
 10 then
 11 eval `ssh-agent`
 12 echo "export SSH_AGENT_PID=$SSH_AGENT_PID" > $SSH_RECENT
 13 echo "export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" >> $SSH_RECENT
 14 fi 
 15 
 16 [ `ssh-add -l | fgrep -v ' no ' | wc -l` -lt 1 ] && ssh-add

Can you tell me why I’m choosing to evaluate $UID for zero?

And, will this work if I switch from an Xterm to a virtual terminal?

I feel like I slouch a lot more when I’m on the exercise ball–I’m eager to bounce up to the standing work space again. And soon I shall. I have built a wooden monitor rack from lumber reclaimed from a few projects around the house. I have hauled the pieces to work on my bike. It looks like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Expect photos soon.st

HIgher res available.

I got caught on camera for a second in the “Why Linux Doesn’t Suck” talk. (Haven’t gotten a chance to review the posting on lunduke.com to see if I was edited out.) I really only made it to a few talks, but I mostly got to have great conversations with a lot of people.

Surprisingly, I spent a lot of time talking about embedded storage servers and the possibility of NanoBSD for embedded (Compact Flash based) devices. Interesting stuff, but I also suspect now that DSL and Slitaz Linux distros weigh in super small as well.

My Apache talk only garnered five attendees and one passer by whom I almost ejected. I had rewriten my Apache Rewrites talk from last year and whittled it down to six slides, and that was really all I needed. I was done in 30 minutes, and the rest of the time was discussing some real-world examples. We dug into the subject and I think everyone left much smarter.

And here are this year’s slides: 2012-04 Apache Rewrites

I think it’s about time for an install on a fresh drive. Or a raid of three 10krpm drives!

So first impression on rebooting into an upgrade of Ubuntu 12.04 — busted install. Unity would not start up, I killed lightdm and restarted it, and I immediately notice that firefox has missing png for some of the tab buttons.

Presently I’m repeating:

$ apt-get autoclean
$ dpkg --clear-avail
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get -f install
$ apt-get autoremove

And this appears to be doing a good job of finding and removing corrupted /var/…/dpkg package files and fixing my install.