On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:54:39AM +0200, Peter Kruse wrote:
> Package: autossh
> Version: 1.2g-1
> Severity: important
> 
> When I turn monitoring off, either by specifying "-M 0" on the command
> line or by setting the environment variable AUTOSSH_PORT=0, autossh
> creates a garbled command line argument to ssh which in turn
> fails to run.  This is how it looks:
> 
> # autossh -M 0 somehost            ; : 19.05.05 10:48
> Bad forwarding specification '¸áÿ¿Ï#ÿ·8_ë·¹
> hëê·táÿ¿Pþ·'
> usage: ssh [-1246AaCfghkNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
>            [-D port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-i identity_file]
>            [-L port:host:hostport] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-o 
> option]
>            [-p port] [-R port:host:hostport] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [command]
> 
> Please note the garbled forward specification which is the actual
> argument given to ssh.
> 
> Apparently this bug is known in upstream, in
> http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/CHANGES (for version 1.3) we find:

indeed, thanks for your report, I'll backport the patch ASAP and see if
debian-release accepts the package

filippo

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