I have a server hosting SSH tunnels and Openbsd 4.5 clients connecting to
it.
Things work just fine but I am in the need of automating the connection
from the client to the server. So that if the client is accidentally
rebooted, then the connection initiates unattended.
So it should be as straight forward as to include the ssh connection in an
init script. However I have miserably failed to do so by including it to
/etc/rc.local, which is the file I usually do this sort of things in.
Right now I am using autossh to also restart the connection if necessary
and the script that I put on /etc/rc.local follows:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Example script to start up tunnel with autossh.
#
# This script will tunnel 2200 from the remote host
# to 22 on the local host. On remote host do:
# ssh -p 2200 localhost
#
# $Id: autossh.host,v 1.6 2004/01/24 05:53:09 harding Exp $
#
ID=root
HOST=example.com
#AUTOSSH_POLL=600
#AUTOSSH_PORT=20000
#AUTOSSH_GATETIME=30
#AUTOSSH_LOGFILE=$HOST.log
#AUTOSSH_DEBUG=yes
#AUTOSSH_PATH=/usr/local/bin/ssh
export AUTOSSH_POLL AUTOSSH_LOGFILE AUTOSSH_DEBUG AUTOSSH_PATH
AUTOSSH_GATETIME AUTOSSH_PORT
autossh -2 -f -M 20000 ${ID}@${HOST}
The script detaches just fine when run manually so I just include it on
/etc/rc.local as
echo -n 'starting local daemons:'
if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/autossh.sh ]; then
echo -n 'ssh tunnel'
/usr/local/sbin/autossh.sh
fi
echo '.'
I have also tried calling it from /etc/hostname.tun0 in case there may be
issues with /etc/rc.local not being called at the right time when network
connections are ready, so I would use:
inet 10.254.254.2 255.255.255.252 10.254.254.1
!/usr/local/sbin/autossh.sh
Your input is highly appreciated.
PS. Clients are remote to me so i dont see much from console and I cant
seem to find a way to have logs from boot.
