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Mitch
Asked: 2017-06-24 06:03:31 +0800 CST

Run ssh-add after Yakuake is opened by startup script

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I'm using Ubuntu's Startup Applications feature to run a script at startup. The script looks like this:

#! /bin/bash

dropBoxDevDir=/home/mitch/Dropbox/dev

set -e

yakuake &
python $dropBoxDevDir/scripts/ysess -i $dropBoxDevDir/configs/yakuake.ini
ssh-add

The idea is to:

  1. Run yakuake
  2. Run the ysess script to open some tabs in Yakuake
  3. Run ssh-add so that I can perform Git operations later on

The problem is that ssh-add doesn't seem to get run. How can I figure out why it doesn't get run?

Alternatively, is there a better way to run ssh-add after the other two commands have finished?

scripts

1 Answers

  1. I'm sure you've found an answer by now, but I saw this unanswered so...

    I see 2 potential causes.

    1. I don't see where you've started ssh-agent. Looking at the man page for ssh-add it adds keys to a running ssh-agent, so that agent must be started first.

    2. Additionally the man page for ssh-add states that if no keys are given it will install some default keys, so if the agent is indeed running, I'd make sure those are the keys you want.

    I used these commands for help:

    man ssh-add
man ssh-agent

    Hope this helps!

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