Timeline for How to reliably keep an SSH tunnel open?
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| Aug 12, 2021 at 1:05 | comment | added | Hayden Thring | This is amazingly simple and very tempting :) an alternative though not as secure to key auth is sshpass command. | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 6:42 | comment | added | sudo | 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. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 15:13 | comment | added | quarkex | It helps if you can't install things in the server. autossh doesn't come preinstalled and bureucracy it's sometimes very obtuse. | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 23:59 | comment | added | nafg | This wouldn't help if ssh itself freezes, would it? | |
| Oct 20, 2012 at 17:25 | comment | added | remmy | You should add any reasons that you'd use this script over autossh, or is it just that it's easier this way? | |
| Sep 22, 2009 at 14:58 | history | answered | Jawa | CC BY-SA 2.5 |