The package 'autossh' is now available in the Cygwin distribution. autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. autossh monitors connections by sending data through a loop of port forwardings, and checking that the data returns. autossh backs off on the rate of connection attempts when experiencing rapid failures such as connection refused. It includes an NT service mode, which works well as an NT system service under cygrunsrv. The autossh home page is http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/. Andrew E. Schulman ******************************************************************* To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. ******************************************************************* -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/