April 1, 2004
10:27 a.m.
Bob Ippolito wrote:
On Mar 11, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Oisin Mulvihill wrote:
I have a series of linux based internet kiosks at a variety of sites. I need to be able to connect back into the kiosk from the main server. However direct connections aren't possible as kiosks are behind there own router/firewall.
This might be considered heresy here, but I've solved this exact problem using autossh (
I won't tell if you won't ;)
http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/ ) and crontab entries.
-bob
From a quick glance at this looks like what I need. I'll check it out properly asap. Using twisted's Process to spawn ssh does work, its just not very pretty. Thanks, om