View the most recent changes for the autossh port at: autossh.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for autossh.
The raw portfile for autossh 1.4b is located here:
http://autossh.darwinports.com/dports/net/autossh/Portfile
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The autossh Portfile 49763 2009-04-17 16:48:11Z alakazam macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: autossh
Version: 1.4b
Category: net sysutils
Maintainers: alakazam
Homepage: http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/
Description: tool to restart terminated ssh sessions
Long Description: autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic.
Platform: darwin freebsd
extract.suffix .tgz
Master Sites: ${homepage}

Checksums: md5 8f9aa006f6f69e912d3c2f504622d6f7 sha1 98fa61969b33fc1380c7e3b7b53ed35a13c1eeb4 rmd160 57accc6968ed0c654035feda8db2a11aa390ade3

destroot.destdir prefix=${destroot}${prefix} bindir=${destroot}${prefix}/bin mandir=${destroot}${prefix}/share/man datadir=${destroot}${prefix}/share

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/autossh
%  sudo port install autossh  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching autossh
--->  Verifying checksum for autossh
--->  Extracting autossh
--->  Configuring autossh
--->  Building autossh with target all

--->  Staging autossh into destroot

--->  Installing autossh

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using autossh with these commands:

%  man autossh
%  apropos autossh
%  which autossh
%  locate autossh

 Where to find more information: