3.4p1 ssh-agent auth-retry patch available: was: Re: Updated ssh-agent authentication retry patch available

[Kevin Steves]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:42:58PM -0701, Jos Backus wrote:
> ssh-agent does
> 
>     listen(3, 128, 1)                               = 0
> 
> After a couple of seconds, when the 85th (or thereabouts) ssh process is
> started I start seeing
> 
>     connect(6, 0xFFBEF6C0, 110, 1) Err#146 ECONNREFUSED
> 
> for a percentage of the new ssh processes. This is with 
> 
>     tcp_conn_req_max_q == 128
> 
> Could it be that the connection timeout period for UNIX domain sockets is
> short on Solaris?

look at syslog for agent errors (or run with -d).
what is the soft fd limit?  i see 256 on solaris 8, so that
wouldn't be an issue.