Differentiating between ssh connection failures and ssh command failures

[Darren Tucker]

On Sep 12, 2015 7:30 PM, "Alex Bligh" <alex at alex.org.uk> wrote:
> That's *exactly* the issue I'm concerned about. Furthermore the server is
> not UNIX so I have no idea how to wrap it in something that makes it
> return a different exit code.

Use the control master / mux function in the ssh client?  That way the
connection establishment and command requests will be separate invocations
and you can check their return codes independently.