ssh port redirection ?

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:30pm, ddm+gnhlug at pizzashack.org wrote:
> Yes, you do.  Unfortunately, ssh ties up a terminal whenever you do a port
> redirection; i.e. you must log into the system to do this.

  If this really bothers people that much, and you are using SSH protocol
version 2 (and you *are* doing that, right?), you can do this:

ssh -N pll at system-b -L 8110:pop-server:110 &
fetchmail --protocol POP3 --port 8110 localhost

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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