On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 07:09 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> In message <20031124144219.GC27185@zhwin.ch>, Christoph Kaegi writes:
>> On 24.11-08:58, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>>>
>>> Then I don't have any guesses.  You might want to run an sshd on a
>>> different port with debugging on, and see what it says.
>>>
>>
>> When run by cron, sshd stops after the following:
>
> Hmmm...  The next obvious step is to turn on client debugging, too.

Hi,

The O'Reilly SSH book recommends using ssh-agent in conjunction with 
ssh in batch or cron jobs.  They also recommend the options:  ssh -q -o 
'BatchMode yes'

Don't forget that if you use ssh-agent, you need to have the agent 
information in the environment that runs the ssh command.

Byron