I don't mind the monkeysphere-ssh-proxycommand output on regular connections. For me it looks something like this with a server not participating in the monkey sphere: ms: processing host: chavez.mayfirst.org ms: - key not found. And like this for a server participating: ms: processing host: george.riseup.net ms: primary key found: 7353A74E3B757F8C ms: * acceptable key found. ms: known_hosts file updated. However, I have some batch scripts that run ssh that also provide output, so the monkeysphere output clutters things up. I would really like to either have a -q/--quiet option, or, preferable for me at least, would be for silent output to be the default and have a -v/--verbose option to get the output. Or - maybe these should be environmental variables? In any event - someway to suppress informational output would be a useful improvement.