Hi Dave,
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, David Pick wrote:
> The tunnel *will* close when the last connection closes. If you want
> to keep it open, you *have* to have a connection extablished which
> *you* control to make sure it stays open until that connection dies.
> You could use a control connection, but make sure it executes a
> harmless command which just waits on the server machine. You could
> arrange to forward a different connection which you keep open instead
> of using the control connection. But you need one or the other; unless
> you want to patch the code...
Thanks for your answer. Now I'm using:
ssh -n -S +C -l user -L 8016:x.x.x.x:8016 customer-host sleep 100000
and it works like a charm.
Thanks // Tom
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