I never understood the novelty of Keychain. It just seemed like a fancy way of going: 

ssh-agent >.ssh-agent 
. .ssh-agent
ssh-add

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and then running 
. .ssh-agent

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Everytime you login or start a job in cron. I guess keychain is slightly smarter than that. Only slightly...only slightly... I guess if I were actually using ssh-agent for my own regular logins it could help, but here it is reserved for cronjobs on servers that rarely get logged into let alone rebooted.

Cheers

In reply to Re^2: SSH and passphrase by pzbagel
in thread SSH and passphrase by thelma1944

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