Re: ssh rulez

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,

	I recal people asking about ssh dropping connections. I use
 fetchmail, and the following snippet from the man pages describes how
 to set up the connection so that ssh goes away 20 seconds after all
 the data has been transferred. Maybe this could be used? (I failed to
 see this documented in the ssh docs, though). This works for me, and
 the ssh connection does go away.

	manoj

       Here's an example configuration using ssh.  The queries go
       through an ssh connecting local port 1234 to port  110  on
       mailhost.net; the preconnect command sets up the ssh.

       poll mailhost.net via localhost port 1234 with pop3:
               preconnect "ssh -f -L 1234:mailhost.net:110
                          mailhost.net sleep 20 </dev/null >/dev/null";
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