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OpenBSD 7.9 release · amd64 · Generated 2026-09-09

autossh-1.4g

SSH monitoring

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Description

autossh is a program to start a copy of SSH and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. The idea and the mechanism are from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel), but implemented in C.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/autossh
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Gonzalo L. R. <gonzalo@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed

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Direct dependencies

None listed in sqlports.

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