| Monitoring a SSH tunnel
How to determine if session is still active? |
cschults
msg:3531552 | 11:28 pm on Dec 19, 2007 (gmt 0) |
If I set up a SSH tunnel using remote port forwarding from one Linux machine to another, how can I check to see if the tunnel is still up? I realize there are tools like RSTunnel and autossh, but I'm wondering how one goes about determining, via a script, if a session/process is still running. Thanks, Chris
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cschults
msg:3549181 | 11:30 pm on Jan 15, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Anyone? I'm guessing a combination of bash and cron scripts, though I'm not sure what the best way to test if a SSH tunnel is still active.
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lammert
msg:3549226 | 12:08 am on Jan 16, 2008 (gmt 0) |
On linux, the command netstat -nt ¦ grep yourip:22 should give you a list of currently active ssh connections. That list can be further processed in a script.
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cschults
msg:3550078 | 8:58 pm on Jan 16, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Thanks lammert. I realized I can do something similar with ps and grep. I've created a bash script that checks if the SSH session is still up and reconnects if not. I have a feeling that there is more to this, but I've definitely made some progress. Here is what I have thus far (comments/suggestions welcome): #!/bin/bash while true
do
if ps aux ¦ grep [y]ourdomain
then
echo "SSH connection up."
else
echo "SSH connection down."
echo "Trying to connect ..."
ssh -N -f -R 3307:localhost:3306 user@www.yourdomain.com
fi
sleep 60
done
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