That is awsome! This would be a great addition to Ant.

-Rob A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Elmsly [mailto:mike.elmsly@ihug.co.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:48 AM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: RE: SSH Tunnel
> 
> 
> Hi Rob, All,
> 	heres my situation as an example
> 
> I have
> 
> [Reporting HOST]----[FW]----[BASTION HOST]----[FW]----[WEBSERVER]
> 
> I can ssh to the bastion host from my reporting host but not 
> directly to
> the webserver.  What I wanted to do was retreive log files, without
> storing them temporarily on the bastion host which involved some messy
> workarounds to first retrieve the files and then clean up afterwards. 
> Hence the tunnel...Heres a sample from my demo build file....
> 
> 
> <taskdef name="sshtunnel" classname="org.mike.Ant.SSHTunnel"
> classpath="/home/elmslym/anttunnel.jar"/>
> 
> <!-- tunnel_retrieve - If bastion_host property is defined then first
> bring files down from
> 		remote host by tunneling through bastion host -->
> 	<target name="tunnel_retrieve" if="env.bastion_host" >
> 		<sshtunnel host="${env.bastion_host}"
> 		  username="${user.name}"
> 		  keyfile="${user.home}/.ssh/id_dsa"
> 		  knownhosts="${user.home}/.ssh/known_hosts"
> 		  passphrase="youre kidding me"
> 		  lport="2222"
> 		  rport="22"
> 		  rhost="${env.remote_host}">
> 			<scp
> 				
> file="${user.name}@localhost:${env.remote_dir}/${env.remote_fi
> le_pattern}"
> 				todir="${env.local_dir}"
> 				keyfile="${user.home}/.ssh/id_dsa"
> 				
> knownhosts="${user.home}/.ssh/known_hosts"
> 				trust="yes"
> 				passphrase=""
> 				compressionlevel="9"
> 				port="2222"/>
> 		</sshtunnel>
> 	</target>
> 
> so I use the ssh tunnel task to setup an ssh tunnel on port 2222 going
> through my bastion_host to the remote host on port 22.
> 
> Inside my sshtunnel task I nest an scp task to connect to the remote
> host through the tunnel and bring the files back.  However I 
> could just
> as easily nest a deploy task to a remote tomcat server etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 04:06, Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) wrote:
> > Mike, Can you provide some examples of how you use this 
> task and some sample build.xml snipets. That would help to 
> clarify the functionality you have described.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -Rob A
> 
> 


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