Greetings! I have a client who recently dropped static IP service in favor of a "cheaper" solution, so they're now on a DHCP network blocking port 25, etc.
In order to continue to allow them to connect to an outbound SMTP box on the LAN, I've done this on their server: sudo ssh -L thisbox:24:remotebox:52525 m...@remotebox I've got Sendmail listening there on 52525, and it works fine; the local clients are told to connect to "thisbox" port 24. The only issue is that I have to run it from a terminal session. When I tried to bg the process ("cmdstring &") it doesn't work, exactly. I've gotten an error message at times*, and at other times I apparently get "thisbox" listening on port 24 but it's not an SMTP daemon that's listening. I have a feeling it's cause I'm in csh, which is notorious for backgrounding issues. <?> At any rate, what I'd like to do is have a script set up the connection, or write some daemon that would monitor the connection and fix it if it gets reset. At any rate, if I could get this SSH process to detach from a terminal, it'd be great. Any suggestions? Kevin Kinsey * I'm sorry, but I can't reproduce the error message this morning. IIRC, something to the effect of "I can't do nothing, give me a command please?" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"