(from email from Peter Mander) May I suggest adding these two lines to the beginning of the keychain script? LANG=C LC_ALL=C export LANG LC_ALL The reason is gawk fails to match regular expressions in a multibyte environment. SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 9.2 both are LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 and keychain fails to find existing ssh-agent processes, and any new login needs to have the passphrase entered again, leading to a needless proliferation of ssh-agent processes. SuSE 9.0 isn't UTF-8, and keychain works as expected there. There is more detail in the GNU Awk User's Guide: 2.9 Where You Are Makes A Difference
fixed in keychain-2.5.4
