ssh tunnel unattended

[Fabrizio Bertocci]

Yan,
Try to provide an input stream to the process. I remember seeing a similar
problem.
/usr/bin/ssh  -N -T -R 1022:localhost:22 uuu at example.com -p 23 < /dev/null

See this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19955260/what-is-dev-null-in-bash

Regards,
Fabrizio


On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 08/07/2016 07:29 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> To clarify this:
>
> The tunnel connects, tcpdump sees packets going back and forth, but
> netstat on the local doesn't show the port.
>
>
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