Christopher Allan Webber writes:
> Hello all! I got autossh packaged, at least in theory. I use this all
> the time when on Debian.
>
> And yet, though the binary appears on my profile, it seems to do nothing
> in Guix. I'm not sure why this is.
>
> I should be able to do:
>
> autossh fencepost.gnu.org
>
> and it should work, but instead I just see the help text printed.
>
> Any ideas? Or if anyone wanting to finish a mysteriously busted
> package, have at it.
Well, guess what! It turns out my patch was just fine. It turns out
what you need to do is:
autossh -M 0 fencepost.gnu.org
It appears Debian must have applied a patch (I haven't verified this)
that makes "-M 0" the default. Otherwise this works just fine.
I've actually been using it for a while but forgot to contribute it.
Here's the updated patch! If people are ok with it, I'd like to push
it.
>From c718ca3986750c255a58b87d9e6805e56c1ffc72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:01:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add autossh.
* gnu/packages/ssh.scm (autossh): New variable.
---
gnu/packages/ssh.scm | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
index af5aae1..9c76f48 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -506,3 +507,30 @@ manipulating key files.")
authentication with SSH's so-called @dfn{interactive keyboard password
authentication}.")
(license license:gpl2+)))
+
+(define-public autossh
+ (package
+ (name "autossh")
+ (version "1.4e")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/autossh-";
+ version ".tgz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32 "0mlicw28vq2jxa0jf0dys5ja75v0fxpjavlq9dpif6bnknji13ly"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (arguments `(#:tests? #f)) ; There is no "make check" or anything similar
+ (inputs `(("openssh" ,openssh)))
+ (synopsis "Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels")
+ (description "autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and
+monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop
+passing traffic. The idea is from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel),
+but implemented in C.")
+ (home-page "http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/";)
+ (license
+ ;; Why point to a source file? Well, all the individual files have a
+ ;; copy of this license in their headers, but there's no seprate file
+ ;; with that information.
+ (license:non-copyleft "file://autossh.c"))))
--
2.10.1
