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Re: Debugging remotely via ssh login
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:24:18 +0100
>>
>> ppmoore <polomora@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I was reading in the manual about remote debugging, but the
>> scenarios > described included debugging via a serial comm line or
>> via a tcp port on the > remote machine. Is it possible to debug
>> where the only access is remote > logon using ssh?
>>
>> You can forward a port via the ssh connection to the remote host,
>> and then use this port for the debugging session.
Eli> If someone describes this scenario in enough detail (a bit more
Eli> than the above single sentence), I'd more than happy to add it
Eli> to the manual.
Something like this:
On the target system:
$ gdbserver localhost:6666 prog args
On the host:
$ ssh -L 6666:target:6666
<log in>
then in another shell:
gdb prog
(gdb) target remote localhost:6666
The same approach works if the target debug is done via something
other than gdbserver, so long as it listens on a TCP port that is
willing to accept local (to the target) connections.
You can avoid the interaction in the ssh invocation by suitable
switches and authenticating mechanism; see the manpage for details.
But the above is the basic approach.
paul