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Andrew Schulman wrote:

>> Oh, and on the topic of automatically setting up ssh port forwarding as
>> a service: OP should definitely use autossh.  This will keep the
>> connection alive if it drops, automatically restarting it as necessary.=
=20
>> Otherwise, the first time it dies the service will stop and the user
>> must manually restart it again.
>>
>> I've been doing this (autossh port forwarding) for years and it's
>> fantastically convenient.
>=20
> Agreed.  I don't do this any more, but I did do it for years, and once it=
 was
> set up, it automatically started at boot and the port forward was always =
just
> there-- I never had to think about it.
>=20
> /usr/share/doc/autossh-1.4a/README.Cygwin has information about how to se=
t this
> up using autossh and cygrunsrv.

Since you're the Cygwin maintainer of autossh, I have a question:=20
shouldn't the service be installed with "-y tcpip"? just like sshd, to=20
avoid problems at startup.

Thanks for the recommendation, I might start using it as well.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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