Force dbclient to exit if remote forwarding request failed

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Mon Nov 30 20:41:51 AWST 2015



30.11.2015, 15:39, "Matt Johnston" <matt at ucc.asn.au>:
>>  On Mon 30/11/2015, at 7:24 pm, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
>>  dbclient: Remote TCP forward request failed (port 3320 -> localhost:22)
>>
>>  ...
>>  1. Is there any way to force dbclient to exit in this case?
>>  2. If not, would it be reasonable feature to have in dbclient?
>
> Hi Konstantin,
>
> I can't think of a good way to force exit apart from grepping the command output for the error message.
>
> I'd like to see that as a feature - I was thinking about it a few days ago. I'd keep it under a command line flag for backwards compatibility. Failing to bind "-L" forward ports would also be handled similarly.
>
> I'll put it on the todo list, or patches accepted.

Could you propose command line option name? I guess the main problem is to avoid collision with OpenSSH client options.

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin


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