On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 06:19:04 +0200
Sami Lehtinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> david, on December 29. 2000, wrote:
> : G'day, all! I am trying to create an ssh connection, with port
> : forwarding between my machine at work and my box at home. I have it
> : working great (no password required!), as long as I start the session
> : within a terminal window. Well, the next step is to be able to start
> : up the connection via a script, "at will" so to speak. Here is the
> : command I use from within Eterm: ssh -X -g -L 9090:bishop.dhs.org:8081
> : -R 9090:dbishop.micron.com:23 bishop.dhs.org
> :
> : Now, when I try and use that same command from withtin a script, it
> : bombs out with an error about "no controlling tty" or somesuch
> : nonsense. "Aha!" I say, and go off to read the man page. Well, one -N
> : later, and it still isn't working. I assume it is creating the
> : connection, forwarding the port, and then immediately dropping the
> : connection because there is nothing traveling across it. I could be
> : wrong ;-)
> :
> : Well, that's it in a nutshell. I need to be able to create an ssh
> : connection with port forwarding/reverse-forwarding from within a
> : script that will not be in a terminal, with no one around the machine,
> : and no remote command executing. What am I missing? Besides a clue, I
> : mean...
>
> You don't seem to be using ssh2,
If it's ssh1 then I think you (David) want to use the -t option (which I think
addresses the problem). Not sure if ssh2 has the same or similar option (one
would think so, but I don't know for sure).
Good luck,
Paul
> but I say this anyway as a FYI to
> anyone that might have the same problem (or if you, gawd forbid, would
> like to try our client out !-) ), fiddling with either "-f" ("fork to
> background immediately after authentication") or "-S" ("don't request
> a session channel" (mind you, ssh-2.3.0 a bug in "-S", which is fixed
> with 2.4.0)). "-f" implies "-S".
>
> In a script you probably want to use "-S", as then you know when the
> ssh2 process really finishes.
>
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