Silly SSH question
Josh Pollak
pardsbane at offthehill.org
Sat Apr 2 13:36:31 EST 2005
I've got a silly question about ssh. I've been using the following line
to open up a port forwarding tunnel:
ssh -L7000:hostname:80 -f -N uname at hostname
-N tells SSH not to execute a command (so I don't get a shell), and -f
says to drop into the background as soon as its authenticated, which
allows me to type my password and not have to type ctrl-z, 'bg'.
The question is, how do I cleanly kill this tunnel? I've been running
'ps aux | grep ssh', finding the line and killing it, but that seems
kludgy. Is there a 'right way' to do this? Even just having ssh return
or save its pid somewhere?
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