tunnel

NAME

SYNOPSIS

tunnel "putty session"

tunnel -s ( "putty session" | all )

AVAILABILITY

DESCRIPTION

With the tunnel command a PuTTY session is started in the background. As soon as the started session terminates it is restarted to ensure that a tunnel session is as reliable as possible.

The default timeout and restart settings can be changed in the optional etc/tunnel.cfg configuration file.

To use a PuTTY session in tunnel the session needs to be defined first in PuTTY in a way that no user interaction is needed on start of the session (using private/public keys to connect and no passphrase or using the pageant(1) prior to start tunnel ).

OPTIONS

-h

usage message.

-V

print program version.

-l

list log file entries of today.

-m

monitor log file.

-p

print all PuTTY sessions handled by tunnel.

-a

list all available (defined) PuTTY sessions. Not all sessions might be suitable tunnels.

"putty session"

a PuTTY session to be handled (restarted on connection loss) by tunnel.

-s "putty session"

stop a PuTTY session handled by tunnel.

-s all

stop all PuTTY session handled by tunnel.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

4

usage message displayed.

5

version message displayed.

FILES

etc/tunnel.cfg

optional configuration file for tunnel.

The settings MINUPTIME=seconds, FASTRESTART=seconds, SLOWRESTART=seconds and MAXRETRIES=number can be used to change the default connection and restart behavior.

var/log/tunnel.log

log file of tunnel.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\session

Windows™ registry key of a PuTTY session.

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