autossh

man monitor and restart ssh sessions

• Homepage: https://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/

Installation

• apt install autossh
• brew install autossh

autossh -M 0 YOUR_SERVER

Loop waiting to connect to server

AUTOSSH_POLL=30 AUTOSSH_GATETIME=0 autossh -M 0 test

AUTOSSH_POLL=5 AUTOSSH_GATETIME=0 autossh -M 0 -o ServerAliveInterval=5 -o ServerAliveCountMax=1 YOUR_SERVER_NAME_OR_IP

Function: .bash_aliases

function ssh_auto() {
    AUTOSSH_POLL=30 AUTOSSH_GATETIME=0 autossh -M 0 "$1"
}
alias sa='ssh_auto'

Related

• .bash_profile
• alias: .bash_aliases
• sshpass
• assh

See also

• Autossh, autossh -M, ssha function
• telnet, netcat, nc, nc -l, ncat, socat, ngrok
• SSH clients: ssh (OpenSSH), putty, MobaXterm, plink, mosh, paramiko, conch pssh, sshpass and autossh, sftp, Termius
• SSH: ssh, TLS, .ppk, .pem, .crt, .pub, ED25519, Key exchange method (KEX), public key, private key, ssh -Q kex, IAMUserSSHKeys, known_hosts, ssh tunnel, Dropbear, ssh -o, ~/.ssh/config