The first thing my .bash_aliases file does on login is to check if I’m running ssh-agent and if so, stick that into my shell environment. If not, kick it up, and update a reminder to it. This morning I found a flaw in that, so I believe this is the fix.

  4 export SSH_RECENT="$HOME/.ssh/recent"
  5 [ -f "$SSH_RECENT" ] && eval `cat $SSH_RECENT`
  6 RUNNING_AGENTS=0
  7 if [ ! -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ]
  8 then
  9    RUNNING_AGENTS=`pgrep -u $(id -u) ssh-agent | grep $SSH_AGENT_PID | wc -l`
 10 fi
 11 if [ $RUNNING_AGENTS -lt 1 -a $UID -ne 0 ]
 12 then
 13    eval `ssh-agent`
 14    echo "export SSH_AGENT_PID=$SSH_AGENT_PID" >    $SSH_RECENT
 15    echo "export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" >>   $SSH_RECENT
 16 fi
 17 [ `ssh-add -l | fgrep -v ' no ' | wc -l` -eq 0 ] && ssh-add