On 09Mar2008 02:16, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx <tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | The thing is I did try the -f and it was the same problem. | Maybe you just can't have it run in the background. No, there's no problem with that - I do it all the time. | I also made a thing on the remote host I called "sleepy" | | while : | do | sleep 500 | done | | and then I did the ssh -l <blah blah blah> $OUTSIDEIP sleepy | | to make sure it would run something and not log me off. | Same problem, AND when I killed the task, sleepy kept | running on the remote machine. Ok. First, are you relying on an ssh-agent to authenticate? It won't be around at batch time. Second, after it's up: does it show in 'ps', and does "netstat -an" show it listening on the right ports? Also, run it with a -v; it should show uses of the forwarded ports. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Maintainer's Motto: If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.
