ssh tunnel unattended

[Yan Seiner]

I have a remote node that I want to administer.  I want to run an ssh 
tunnel from that node to my router.

If I start it from the command line with

/usr/bin/ssh  -R 1022:localhost:22 uuu at example.com -p 23

everything works fine.

But if I try to run it from inittab or /etc/rc.local, it never connects. 
  I've tried

/usr/bin/ssh  -N -T -R 1022:localhost:22 uuu at example.com -p 23
/usr/bin/ssh  -N -R 1022:localhost:22 uuu at example.com -p 23

nothing seems to work.  How do I run a tunnel automatically from an 
embedded box?

Thanks.