OK, I've looked through all the archives on this topic and despite all the info out there, I still can't get this to do what I want. To me it looks as if ssh just simply isn't behaving according to the documentation, but I'm hoping someone out there will show me my err. I just want to start an ssh session from a -> b. The sole purpose of this connection is to forward ports, no terminal is needed or desired. Once the tunnel is created I want to put the session in the background. Simple enough. According to all I've read this is how I could set this up: ssh -f -l user -L 8080:remotehost:80 -C ssh.host sleep 86400 This should make the connection, prompt me for my passphrase/password, create the tunnel and then go into the background. All this is true .. except for the last part. It won't background for me. I can suspend then bg, but that's not what I'm looking for. Is there something I'm missing here? I am using openssh v2.1.1 connecting to opensshd v2.1.1. TIA, Keith
