Re: start ssh port forwarding at boot time

[René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>]

Andrew Schulman wrote:

> > Oh, and on the topic of automatically setting up ssh port forwarding as
> > a service: OP should definitely use autossh.  This will keep the
> > connection alive if it drops, automatically restarting it as necessary. 
> > Otherwise, the first time it dies the service will stop and the user
> > must manually restart it again.
> >
> > I've been doing this (autossh port forwarding) for years and it's
> > fantastically convenient.
>
> Agreed.  I don't do this any more, but I did do it for years, and once it was
> set up, it automatically started at boot and the port forward was always just
> there-- I never had to think about it.
>
> /usr/share/doc/autossh-1.4a/README.Cygwin has information about how to set this
> up using autossh and cygrunsrv.

Since you're the Cygwin maintainer of autossh, I have a question: 
shouldn't the service be installed with "-y tcpip"? just like sshd, to 
avoid problems at startup.

Thanks for the recommendation, I might start using it as well.
--
René Berber


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