Getting SSH to exit when Forwardings fail

From: Mike Gibson (gibson_at_genetics.utah.edu)
Date: 01/22/04

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:02:22 -0700

    Is there any way to get the ssh client (I'm using OpenSSH_3.4p1) to exit (and
    give a failure code if possible) when a port forwarding fails? Wouldn't it
    make sense to do this if the -N option is specified? If the forwardings
    fail, then what is the point of the connection? I would like to do this in
    order to automate a set of port forwarding scripts. I need ssh to keep
    trying to create a forwarding until it is successful.

    Mike Gibson
    gibson@genetics.utah.edu

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