Upstart script not starting on boot

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Hi everyone,

First time writing a startup script in Ubuntu and I'm having some trouble.
I'm having an issue with a custom init (upstart) script. Basically the
script should start on boot and establish an ssh connection to a remote
proxy. Unfortunately the script is not working as intended and does not
automatically establish the connection at boot time.

A query of "sudo initctl list" shows the script in the "stopped/waiting"
state just after boot. Below is the contents of the /etc/init/sshproxy.conf
file:

Code:
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# sshproxy
#
# This service maintains an ssh connection to the proxy
# server. If the connection breaks it will be automatically re-established.

# start on started rcS
# start on runlevel [2345]
# start on started ssh
start on started networking
# start on started network-interface-security
# start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]


respawn
exec /usr/bin/ssh -n -N -T -R 10001:localhost:22 user at proxy


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I am running 10.04. As you can see I have tried a number of "start on"
directives with none of them working as intended.

I've done all the set up with SSH, shared the keys etc, so the actual
connection works. If I run the script manually with "sudo start sshproxy"
the connection is established and all is well. However, that's not what I
want to do, this should start and establish the connection automatically on
boot.

Reading this (http://upstart.ubuntu.com/getting-started.html) lead me to
believe that this was all the configuration I needed, however the script
still does not start on boot. I know I am missing something fairly obvious
but I'm a bit stuck...

Is there another place / file I need to configure to actually get this to
start on boot?

Thanks for any help you can send my way.
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