X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autossh-1.4b-1 To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.5 CCH1 March 07, 2006 Message-Id: From: Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:40:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com A new version of the autossh package is available in the Cygwin distribution. autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. autossh monitors connections by sending data to an echo server or through a loop of port forwardings, and checking that the data returns. autossh backs off on the rate of connection attempts when experiencing rapid failures such as connection refused. It includes an NT service mode, which works well as an NT system service under cygrunsrv. Version 1.4b-1 is a new upstream release. It fixes a bug in polling, and adds a new max lifetime option. Andrew E. Schulman ******************************************************************* To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/