Hi Kevin and Lluís,
Kevin Locke wrote:
> Just wanted to express my support for including the patch in the
> autossh package. I was about to write an initscript for autossh for
> my own use before finding this bug report, but I've found the
> attached script serves my purposes quite well and the quality seems
> very good to me. I'm sure other users from benefit from it as well.
I must admit that I'm reluctant to add an init script as I consider
automatically starting ssh sessions at boot up as something very
seldom (and IMHO dangerous).
Then again I see that if you really want such a thing, autossh would
be very helpful.
> If it's not worth installing the init script by default, I'd recommend
> including it in /usr/share/doc/autossh/examples as a reference.
That's a good idea!
> The only suggestion I have is to avoid calling not_configured in the
> init script when $START is 0, especially if the init script is
> installed by default. Users who do not want to run autossh as a
> daemon are unlikely to want to see an attention-grabbing 3-line
> warning about it on every boot. Convention seems to be to print a
> single-line "Starting autossh: not configured" or similar.
Indeed.
Regards, Axel
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