Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 06:23:14 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-11.1p10 and autossh Message-ID: <20180615062314.7d7c21273719a4cf0e899915@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <5387e3bd234fcae7274d3202fd89d71d.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <5387e3bd234fcae7274d3202fd89d71d.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 11:27:19 -0400 "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > I cannot seem to configure autossh to work from anything other than > the command line, which defeats the purpose. I would like it to > automatically start when the system boots but I have been unsuccessful > in all my attempts to date. I have tried adding this in rc.conf: > > autossh -M0 -f -i /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 -L 143:localhost:143 > root@192.168.216.17 Nooooo don't do that rc.conf gets sourced all over the place. Put it in /etc/rc.local or in some user's crontab with @reboot instead. I use the latter to maintain a set of tunnels for incoming connections to my LAN <mumble>PITA ISP filters</mumble>. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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