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You can do this cleanly with an ssh 'control socket'. To talk to an already-running SSH process and get it's pid, kill it etc. Use the 'control socket' (-M for master and -S for socket) as follows:

$ ssh -M -S my-ctrl-socket -fnNT -L 50000:localhost:3306 jm@sampledomain.com
$ ssh -S my-ctrl-socket -O check jm@sampledomain.com
Master running (pid=3517) 
$ ssh -S my-ctrl-socket -O exit jm@sampledomain.com
Exit request sent.

Note that my-ctrl-socket will be an actual file that is created. I got this info from a very RTFM reply on the OpenSSH mailing list.

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