On Wed May 30 17:57:49 EDT 2012, Nataraj wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 17:00, James B. Byrne wrote: >> I am trying, without success, to create an upstart config file to >> automatically start and restart an ssh proxy. The command sting that >> I use in the script has been checked and verified from the shell but >> it fails in the upstart file. >> > The '-f option' tells SSH to run in the background, but normally > upstart expects to wait for the process. Maybe you want '-n' > instead of '-f'. Alternatively, if you run a program in the > background you could specify 'task' in the config file to tell > upstart not to wait for the process (you couldn't use respawn > with that because then the process is not managed by upstart > anymore). The problem in my script appears to be this: # SSH switches used: env SSH_SWITCHES="" env SSH_SWITCHES=${SSH_SWITCHES}" -nNqT -vvv " Upon further investigation I discovered that the env stanza does not expand previously defined variables. My attempt at concatenating values results in the key name being used instead of its value. In other words: '${SSH_SWITCHES} -nNqT -vvv' is what results and not simply '-nNqT -vvv' as one might expect. Exporting the value between env stanzas does not change this behaviour. Eliminating the concatenation attempts resolved the issue. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos