On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:58:18AM -0600, Jerzy Jalocha N wrote: > I see that this is a very old issue, but I bring it up again, since I > just ran into the same problem. > > I just contacted the autossh developer Carson Harding, who kindly > explained the problem to me. > > By default, autossh uses two monitoring ports which must be specified > with the -M option. Debian silently sets this to 21021 (and 21022?) if > you don't set the -M option. Thus, if you are using many connections > to the same destination, you must explicitly set other ports using the > -M option. You can also disable this feature using '-M 0'. Read the > excellent autossh man page for a detailed description. > > It would be nice if Debian would issue a more descriptive warning, > something like:
Starting with autossh 1.4a-1 the debian wrapper tries random ports instead of 21021. This should solve your issue, right? filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net PGP key: 0x6B79D401 random quote follows: Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy. -- Alan Perlis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
