After much reading, to try to get a cron job being able to run with ssh, I found that the best solution for me appears to be to run keychain, with --clear. I found the IBM tutorials, which helped a lot, until it came to the bit about setting up the automatic loading of keychain. That's when you realise how out of date the tutorials are. Parts 1 and 2 were written in 2001 and part 3 in 2002. Much has changed since then. Trying to follow the instructions but adapting to what happens now, I put the following into ~/.bash_profile /usr/bin/keychain --clear ~/.ssh/id_dsa source ~/.bashrc Into ~/.bashrc I put eval `ssh-agent` #should that have been changed to 'eval keychain'? and at the start of the cron job I put source ~/.keychain/david.lydgate.lan-sh Then I logged out, and back in. Keychain did not start. I ran 'eval keychain' and the cron job has completed once correctly. Is it just the eval statement that is wrong, or do I need to change other things? Anne
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