# startup issue with ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/startup-issue-with-ansible/12058>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** fedora, ansible-project\
**Created:** [October 31, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/startup-issue-with-ansible/12058 "2012-10-31T12:18:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/startup-issue-with-ansible/12058/1 "2012-10-31T12:18:19Z")

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Yeah, it's not an error, it's telling you your SSH is too old and need  
to configure your SSH args in the config file or through the  
environment to not attempt to use it.

It will be rather slow, so using a newer client to run Ansible if you  
need -c ssh and not paramiko is probably not a bad idea (recent Fedora  
vs CentOS, etc).

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**Author:** ![kevin\_fernandes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/db5fbb/32.png) [@kevin\_fernandes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kevin_fernandes)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/startup-issue-with-ansible/12058/2 "2012-11-05T10:11:41Z")

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Hi,

I am having the following open-ssh packages on centos6.3

openssh-server-5.3p1-81.el6.x86\_64  
openssh-5.3p1-81.el6.x86\_64  
openssh-clients-5.3p1-81.el6.x86\_64

What version of openssh packages are required to use Contolmaster and Controlpersists options?  
I already have the above settings defined as ssh\_args in ansible.cfg

Regards,  
Kevin