Running ssh from bash scripts

Hi,

I'd like to ask for some advice on a topic that's giving me trouble for some time now. Here's what I try to do:

I'd like to set up a ssh tunnel via ssh -f -N -R <remote-port>:some-host:<local-port> user@remote-host.

The command above resides in bash script on a RedHat 7.1 box and should be started under certain conditions by cron periodically. I tried this on a Sun running Solaris 8 using OpenSSH 3.1 pl 1 and it worked perfectly well. But when I try the same script on the RedHat machine using the same ssh version nothing happens - the ssh process gets started but no connection is made.

When I run the bash script from the comand line on the Linux box then everything's just fine - the ssh process is launched and the connection is set up.

It seems that this is more a Linux- than ssh-specific problem but this list seemed to be the right place to ask for something like that.

Thanks in advance

Markus Preller Received on Wed Mar 5 14:01:20 2003

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