Thursday, July 10, 2008

keychain: command not found

Bash reported 
keychain: command not found
every time we logged on to krishna via ssh. Googled, found that it was a bug in Mandriva, fixed it by editing .bash_profile by adding an if [ -x /usr/bin/keychain ] like 
 if [ ! -d $HOME/.keychain ]; then
     if [ -x /usr/bin/keychain ] ; then
                keychain
     fi
fi
The [space] before the -x is important....
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 08, 2008 9:23 PM

    I'm having similar difficulty, trying to ssh to a PCLinuxOS box from a PCLinuxOS laptop (PCLinuxOS being based on Mandriva).
    I tried editing bash_profile as you suggest, but I still get the error.
    Should I restart my Xsession or something for the edit to be effective?

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  2. UnknownAugust 08, 2008 9:24 PM

    huh...looks like I don't have "keychain" in /usr/bin...or anywhere...
    doh

    looks like I need to apt-get something...

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