Bug 252360 – Init script for net-misc/autossh

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Russell Harmon 2008-12-24 09:43:05 UTC]

I wrote an init script for autossh and thought it might be useful to include it with the ebuild.

Note that this init script may do *too* much... we may want to cut down on the options it passes to ssh.

[Comment 1 Russell Harmon 2008-12-24 09:45:06 UTC]

Created attachment 176276 [details]
autossh

This ebuild does require some directories to be installed on the machine, and an autossh user to be available.
It needs the following directories
/var/run/autossh (owned by autossh:daemon)
/var/lib/autossh (owned by autossh:daemon)
and an autossh user whose home dir is /var/lib/autossh

[Comment 2 Russell Harmon 2008-12-24 09:47:45 UTC]

here is an example of the configuration file for it

# global_alive_interval="15"
# global_debug="yes"
global_args_add="-c arcfour -2 -x"

rtunnel_backup_host="user@host"
rtunnel_backup_args="-R :10000:localhost:22"
rtunnel_backup_master="no"

# ---------------

saikano_host="user@host"
#saikano_debug="yes"

socks5_host="user@host"
#socks5_master="saikano"
socks5_args="-D 10543"

vnc_host="user@host"
#vnc_master="saikano"
vnc_args="-R 5900:172.16.15.14:5900 -R 5901:172.16.15.21:5901"
#vnc_debug="yes"

rtunnel_host="user@host"
#rtunnel_master="saikano"
rtunnel_args="-R :10000:localhost:22"

The service_master is used instead of service_host when I want to use the ssh connection multiplexing. The host of the master will be used to connect

[Comment 3 Russell Harmon 2008-12-24 09:50:34 UTC]

Created attachment 176277 [details]
autossh

Forgot to remove the local definition of a variable I didn't use anymore in start()

[Comment 4 Tim Harder 2019-11-18 05:41:24 UTC]

I don't think this is very useful at large unless you or someone else wants to maintain a more generic version of this. Closing as won't fix since it seems much too complex for my tastes.