Re: [Gumstix-users] Question on SSH on boot

[Craig H. <cr...@gu...>]

On Dec 12, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Erik Kamerling wrote:

> On Monday 12 December 2005 17:16, Craig Hughes wrote:
>> My initial guess would be that the network interface hasn't come up
>> fully yet when the script's trying to run, so SSH is failing to be
>> able to connect.  Try hiving the output (including stderr) to a file
>> somewhere which you can check after the machine's up to see if
>> there's an error msg being reported.
>
> I'll definitely try that. Thanks Craig.
>
> And just as an experiment I put;
>
> null::respawn:/home/sshconnect
>
> in /etc/inittab and the etherstix makes multiple/repeated  
> successful SSH
> connections after it is fully booted.
>
> So I know it works - I just need to dig further I suppose.

Ok, that's actually pretty good news -- the other thing I thought  
might be maybe happening is that some env var wasn't getting set up  
properly, though that seemed less likely than the network just not  
being fully there yet.

C