Go for it, Andrea.

It's probable that that option (-N) was not around when this support was first added (yes, looks like it's ssh2 only). I remember making the sleep hack, and I like your solution better.

Cheers, -Brian


Andrea Righi wrote:
Hi,

just a little note...

when we use a ssh tunnel to transfer data from the client to the image-server, I see the client runs a 'sleep 14400' on the image-server to keep up the encrypted connection... but if you perform installations with many clients (of if you perform very frequently installations) a hudge amount of ugly "sleep" tasks will be created on the image-server.

Well... this is not a problem, but what do you think if we open a tunnel using the -N option? In this way the ssh-tunnel will be up until the client reboots and no tasks will be forked on the image-server. And I don't see any reason to keep the timeout...

If you like this, I could apply this patch...

Bye,
-Andrea


------------------------------------------------------------------------

--- initrd_source/skel/etc/init.d/functions~    2004-12-25 06:22:04.000000000 
+0100
+++ initrd_source/skel/etc/init.d/functions     2005-01-29 12:40:52.000000000 
+0100
@@ -1142,9 +1142,6 @@
     if [ ! -z $PRIVATE_KEY ]; then

         # With the prep ready, start the ssh tunnel connection.
-        # the sleep command executes remotely.  Just need something long here
-        # as the connection will be severed when the newly imaged client 
reboots
-        # 14400 = 4 hours...if we're not imaged by then....oh boy!
         #
         # Determine if we should run interactive and set redirection options 
appropriately.
         # So if the key is blank, go interactive. (Suggested by Don Stocks 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
@@ -1156,7 +1153,7 @@
             REDIRECTION_OPTIONS=""
         fi

-        CMD="ssh -l $SSH_USER -n -f -L873:127.0.0.1:873 $IMAGESERVER sleep 14400 
$REDIRECTION_OPTIONS"
+        CMD="ssh -N -l $SSH_USER -n -f -L873:127.0.0.1:873 $IMAGESERVER 
$REDIRECTION_OPTIONS"
         echo $CMD
         $CMD || shellout


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