ssh agent

When working remotely, one is known to sometime connect to a machine (within the vpn’d network) as a jump box. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to cache the ssh keys properly. Thus, they should be stopped and restarted: ps -ef |grep “[s]sh-agent -s” | awk ‘{print “kill ” $2}’ |sh eval ssh-agent -s ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa Of … Read more

NFS cached hostname for decomissioned host

Upon performing a mksysb restore of a system, and booting it up noted an error regarding NFS. Jan 14 12:03:18 dcsvchefbld9 daemon:warn|warning statd[7078382]: statd: host host01.example.com is not responding If this happens, you should check the cached directories for the host entry at: /var/statmon/sm /var/statmon/sm.bak If a file exists with the name of the host … Read more

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