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Systemd service for autossh
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autossh.service
[Unit]
Description=Keeps a tunnel to 'remote.example.com' open
After=network.target
[Service]
User=autossh
# -p [PORT]
# -l [user]
# -M 0 --> no monitoring
# -N Just open the connection and do nothing (not interactive)
# LOCALPORT:IP_ON_EXAMPLE_COM:PORT_ON_EXAMPLE_COM
ExecStart=/usr/bin/autossh -M 0 -N -q -o "ServerAliveInterval 60" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -p 22 -l autossh remote.example.com -L 7474:127.0.0.1:7474 -i /home/autossh/.ssh/id_rsa
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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fedecupe commented May 27, 2017 •
edited

maybe change to After=network-online.target

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lifeboy commented Jul 19, 2017

This sounds simple enough, but I couldn't get this to work. This thing starts and then ssh exists on signal 15 for no reason.

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