Month: June 2006

ssh-add picks up the agent fine when using X11, but when logged into a remote ssh session:

michael@apollo:~$ ssh-add
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

Ah, we have to fire up ssh-agent and cut/paste the env variables…

michael@apollo:~$ ssh-agent
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-erlzEU7907/agent.7907; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH_AGENT_PID=7908; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 7908;
michael@apollo:~$ SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-erlzEU7907/agent.7907; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=7908; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
michael@apollo:~$ ssh-add
Enter passphrase for /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa:
Identity added: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa)
michael@apollo:~$

Thanks, Brandon! 😉

I have been a big ncftp user for many years, and I am really starting to like lftp – escaping the lftp shell for command-line access and the way lftp maintains session persistance through re-authentication have made me a believer.

I found a little mirroring issue with the Smarty cache from the CMS application, CMSMadeSimple, that I am using for a site, and found the following works nicely to mirror to my local working directory, while excluding the Smarty cache files:

lftp michael@ftp.blah.net:/www.blah.net/web/content/cms> mirror --no-umask -x tmp/templates_c/* -e
Total: 138 directories, 1004 files, 0 symlinks
Removed: 0 directories, 3 files, 0 symlinks
lftp michael@ftp.blah.net:/www.blah.net/web/content/cms>

I need to tinker a little with reverse mirroring options to get things just right 😉

Michael