SSH with -N and -f in an upstart job

[Ted]

You sure its running? or is it prompting for password that you don't see 
because its run from a different user?

-tl

On 03/19/2012 10:13 PM, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> I'm attempting to use upstart to start up a bunch of ssh port forwarding
> mappings so that I can check Munin over SSH only (Munin 2.0 has this
> functionality but isn't ready yet).
>
> So far, if I create a simple bash script with a series of commands like
> the following, I can run munin server locally and have it poll the
> remote munin-nodes no problem.
>
> sudo -u munin ssh muninuser at node1 -L 5001:127.0.0.1:4949 -N -f
> sudo -u munin ssh muninuser at node2 -L 5002:127.0.0.1:4949 -N -f
> sudo -u munin ssh muninuser at node3 -L 5003:127.0.0.1:4949 -N -f
>
> The problem is that if I put these into exec statements in an upstart
> job, only the first one executes, the other two do not.
>
> I've also tried calling a bash script containing the commands, but
> upstart just hangs in that case.
>
> Anyone here who has written upstart jobs that might be able to point me
> in the right direction?
>
> I'm trying to use upstart instead of an init.d script or rc.local
> because it seems like a reasonably clean way to run processes like this
> on startup.
>
> Jamon
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