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You should add any reasons that you'd use this script over autossh, or is it just that it's easier this way?
– remmy
Commented Oct 20, 2012 at 17:25
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This wouldn't help if ssh itself freezes, would it?
– nafg
Commented Nov 25, 2013 at 23:59
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It helps if you can't install things in the server. autossh doesn't come preinstalled and bureucracy it's sometimes very obtuse.
– quarkex
Commented Mar 13, 2017 at 15:13
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Yes, preferable not to have to install things. I've been doing it this way for a year as my only way to keep a remote machine accessible (even set crontab to run it upon reboot). It's never failed, and more importantly, I know why it will never fail.
– sudo
Commented Apr 2, 2018 at 6:42
This is amazingly simple and very tempting :) an alternative though not as secure to key auth is sshpass command.
– Hayden Thring
Commented Aug 12, 2021 at 1:05

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