inittab master needed

[slam_head]

I'm try to set up an ssh tunnel using the inittab. I added the following line to the inittab:

[Nuteater]

Is there a reason why you are putting it in inittab, and not in an init.d script?
Also, for a persistent ssh tunnel you might want to check out autossh (in portage).
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[nielchiano]

inittab will start the program you request, and watch it. If it exitst, it'll restart it.

This is exactly what it is designed to do: you start SSH with the "-f" option, so ssh will fork (start another process that doest he tunnel) and exit; init will think it stopped, and restart it.

try removing the -f option, that should do.

But I agree with Nuteater: ssh-tunnel-setup isn't a job for init... its a job for init-scripts (since eth0 might not even be up)

[slam_head]

Thank you nielchiano, it was the -f causing the problem. The reason I want it in the inittab is so that if the tunnel dies it will be restarted, which you can't get from the init scripts, but I'll take a look at autossh.

[nielchiano]

[UberLord]

Because the init script would never return so the system boot would never complete .....

[nielchiano]

[UberLord]

This may work - I've not tested it, just typing randomly in the forum

[slam_head]

While I appreciate the discussion this generated, I've got it working in the inittab and it seems to be work fine.

[UberLord]