Package: ssh
Version: 1:4.7p1-5
Followup-For: Bug #254909
If you pass -f to ssh without supplying a command to be executed on the
remote system, you are told:
Cannot fork into background without a command to execute.
As an alternative to supplying a command, you can in fact pass -N, which
is documented in ssh(1) thusly:
Do not execute a remote command. This is useful for just forwarding
ports (protocol version 2 only).
Perhaps the error from a commandless -f should end with "(try -N)"?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii openssh-client 1:4.7p1-5 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii openssh-server 1:4.7p1-5 secure shell server, an rshd repla
ssh recommends no packages.
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