Re: cygrunsrv autossh - tunnel does not come up

["René Berber" <r.berber@computer.org>]

hooner wrote:

> I have problems running autossh via cygrunsrv on WIN2003:
>  
> /bin/cygrunsrv.exe -I AutoSSH -p /bin/autossh -a "-M 20000 -g2CN -R
> 20120:localhost:3389 -i /etc/key-rsa -p 20012 user@192.168.100.12" -e
> AUTOSSH_NTSERVICE=yes -y tcpip --type auto
> 
> As soon as I start the service (net start autossh) it stops. So it looks
> like it never came up:
> Autossh.log:
> 2009/01/08 23:26:25 autossh[10148]: starting ssh (count 1)
> 2009/01/08 23:26:25 autossh[10148]: ssh child pid is 9528
> Host key verification failed.
> 2009/01/08 23:26:25 autossh[10148]: ssh exited prematurely with status 255;
> autossh exiting
> 
> Running just ssh or autossh the tunnel comes up and stays:
> ssh: ssh -v -g2CN -R 20120:localhost:3389 -i /etc/key-rsa -p 20012
> user@192.168.100.12
> autossh: /bin/autossh -M 20000 -g2CN -R 20120:localhost:3389 -i /etc/key-rsa
> -p 20012 user@192.168.100.12

There's a big difference between running it as a service like you did,
and running it as a user.

First thing to try: run the service as your user, i.e. add --user <user
name> to the service installation.

And don't expect too much, I use it all the time and it works but it
fails to start very often, I end up starting it manually.
-- 
René Berber


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