How To Install autossh on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install autossh on Rocky Linux 8.
What is autossh
autossh is a utility to start and monitor an ssh tunnel. If the tunnel dies or stops passing traffic, autossh will automatically restart it.
We can use yum or dnf to install autossh on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install autossh.
Install autossh on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install autossh using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install autossh
Install autossh on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install autossh using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install autossh
How To Uninstall autossh on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the autossh package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove autossh
autossh Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/autossh
/usr/bin/autossh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/0a9967d7944fad6949343fca218259ecffe77b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/autossh
/usr/share/doc/autossh/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/autossh/README
/usr/share/doc/autossh/README.service
/usr/share/doc/autossh/examples
/usr/share/doc/autossh/examples/autossh.host
/usr/share/doc/autossh/examples/rscreen
/usr/share/man/man1/autossh.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install autossh on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
