|The problem is that sometimes these programs don't work |right and hassle ensues if I start them up without starting |up my ssh session first, or if the ssh session has dropped |someplace along the way. A lot of the time I'm working |locally, so I might not notice that the tunnel went away, |and exim will tell me that the message couldn't be |delivered, etc.
you could use a vpn (vtun, openvpn) which tries all the time to connect. you could start ssh automatically with a wrapper to restart it each time the connexion is dropped. (and start all of this inside of a screen) : wrapper : #!/bin/sh while ($e);do $@ ;date;echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ";echo sleeping 300;sleep 300 ;done screenrc : defescape ^na escape ^na nethack on startup_message off vbell on defscrollback 1024 deflogin off obuflimit 30000 screen wrapper.sh ssh -L 2525:localhost:25 mailhost startup script : screen -d -m -S tunnel -c ~/.screenrc and link the startup script from, say, /etc/rc2.d/S80screen -- xavier renaut
