On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, Noah Zalev wrote: > It may be a success according to your semantics in this instance, but > what about in cases where the known_host file *should* have been > found, but wasn't? What do you care? Its job is to ensure the next ssh to that host will not have an old host key in the way. If there’s no known_hosts file, that’s done. If you really need to test whether that file exists… test(1) exists. Don’t complicate things. bye, //mirabilos -- «MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of life. » “mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to be a database” (#nosec) ‣‣‣ Please let MySQL and MariaDB finally die! _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev