On Cygwin, I want a Bash script to:
The shutdown part has me perplexed.
Currently, I have a lame solution. In one shell I run the following to create a tunnel:
# Create the tunnel - this works! It runs forever, until the shell is quit.
ssh -nNT -L 50000:localhost:3306 jm@sampledomain.com
Then, in another shell window, I do my work:
# Do some MySQL stuff over local port 50000 (which goes to remote port 3306)
Finally, when I am done, I close the first shell window to kill the tunnel.
I'd like to do this all in one script like:
# Create tunnel
# Do work
# Kill tunnel
How do I keep track of the tunnel process, so I know which one to kill?
You can do this cleanly with an ssh 'control socket'. To talk to an already-running SSH process and get it's pid, kill it etc. Use the 'control socket' (-M for master and -S for socket) as follows:
$ ssh -M -S my-ctrl-socket -fnNT -L 50000:localhost:3306 jm@sampledomain.com
$ ssh -S my-ctrl-socket -O check jm@sampledomain.com
Master running (pid=3517)
$ ssh -S my-ctrl-socket -O exit jm@sampledomain.com
Exit request sent.
Note that my-ctrl-socket will be an actual file that is created.
I got this info from a very RTFM reply on the OpenSSH mailing list.
You can tell SSH to background itself with the -f option but you won't get the PID with $!. Also instead of having your script sleep an arbitrary amount of time before you use the tunnel, you can use -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes with -f and SSH will wait for all remote port forwards to be successfully established before placing itself in the background. You can grep the output of ps to get the PID. For example you can use
...
ssh -Cfo ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -NL 9999:localhost:5900 $REMOTE_HOST
PID=$(pgrep -f 'NL 9999:')
[ "$PID" ] || exit 1
...
and be pretty sure you're getting the desired PID