Re: [gentoo-user] autossh

[Kaushal Shriyan]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Willie Wong<wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 06:11:20PM +0530, Penguin Lover Kaushal Shriyan squawked:
>> > file `which autossh`
>
> What about this command? I want to see if autossh is a wrapper script
> so that it has its own environment.
>
>> $ AUTOSSH_POLL=100 autossh hostxxx
>> autossh[16050]: checking for grace period, tries = 0
>> autossh[16050]: starting ssh (count 1)
>> autossh[16053]: execing /usr/bin/ssh
>> autossh[16050]: ssh child pid is 16053
>> autossh[16050]: check on child 16053
>> autossh[16050]: set alarm for 600 secs
>> ^Cautossh[16050]: received signal to exit (2)
>
> Regardless, you should file a bug. The way it is ignoring the
> environmental variable is definitely different from what the man page
> says it should do.
>
> The only things I can think of that gives it such behaviour is either
>
> (i) The software itself is broken and doesn't respect the variable.
> (ii) /usr/bin/autossh is actually a wrapper script so you need to set
> the variables in there, instead of in your .bashrc.
>
> For either case, the behaviour is not consistent with the man page.
>
> W
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Hi Willie Wong

file `which autossh`
/usr/bin/autossh: POSIX shell script text executable

http://paste.ubuntu.com/268077/

I dont see any of my env variables being called in that bash shell script.

Please suggest and guide

Thanks for the explanation.

Thanks and Regards,

Kaushal