Force dbclient to exit if remote forwarding request failed

[Konstantin Tokarev]

30.11.2015, 15:47, "Konstantin Tokarev" <annulen at yandex.ru>:
> 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.

Maybe its time to add -o and use OpenSSH-compatible -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes?

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Regards,
Konstantin