Hi, First I hope this is the right list for asking this kind of question. I would like to have a ssh connection just for port forwarding. So I would like to stop it when I don't need it anymore (for a vnc connexion). I though I can run a command that is killed when I want, so that it ends the port-forwarding. For example : $ssh -f -L port:host:port host fake_command then, I can do: $ssh host kill_fake_command that stops the fake_command and terminate the port forwarding. I tried to wait for a process to terminate, a process with a known pid, $ssh host 'launch' launch puts its pid in launch.pid $ pid_to_wait=cat launch.pid $ssh -f -L port:host:port host wait $pid_to_wait but bash says: bash: wait: pid 3839 is not a child of this shell Have I missed something ? Is there a correct way to do this ? Thanks for your attention. Pat
