<div>This is what worked:</div><div><br></div><div>$ sshpass -p '1qazxsw2' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -t <a href="mailto:root@192.168.50.87">root@192.168.50.87</a> "/etc/init.d/asterisk restart; sleep 5; exit"</div>
<div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Edward Holcroft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eholcroft@mkainc.com" target="_blank">eholcroft@mkainc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Morning all<div><br></div><div>I need to run a command on an internal server that will restart a given service, in this case asterisk, without user intervention. I using this:</div><div><br></div><div>sshpass -p '1qazxsw2' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no <a href="mailto:root@192.168.50.87" target="_blank">root@192.168.50.87</a> /etc/init.d/asterisk restart</div>
<div><br></div><div>The problem is this command never logs out:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Stopping safe_asterisk: [ OK ]</div><div>Shutting down asterisk: [ OK ]</div><div>Starting asterisk: [ OK ]</div></div><div>
<br></div><div>.... and there it sits, until I manually close it</div><div><br></div><div>I also tried using -t with the ssh command, which closes the session, but without restarting the service, even though it says it did:</div>
<div><br></div><div>$ sshpass -p '1qazxsw2' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -t <a href="mailto:root@192.168.50.87" target="_blank">root@192.168.50.87</a> "/etc/init.d/asterisk restart"</div><div><div>Stopping safe_asterisk: [FAILED]</div>
<div>Shutting down asterisk: [FAILED]</div><div>Starting asterisk: [ OK ]</div><div>Connection to 192.168.50.87 closed.</div></div><div><br></div>
<div>I found this article:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.snailbook.com/faq/background-jobs.auto.html" target="_blank">http://www.snailbook.com/faq/background-jobs.auto.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>And tried:</div>
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<br></div><div><div>$ sshpass -p '1qazxsw2' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no <a href="mailto:root@192.168.50.87" target="_blank">root@192.168.50.87</a> /etc/init.d/asterisk restart < /dev/null</div></div><div><br>
</div><div>which also does not close.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any ideas on how I can get this to run the way I want it to?</div><div><br clear="all"><div>ed</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Edward Holcroft<br>Madsen Kneppers & Associates Inc.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Edward Holcroft<br>Madsen Kneppers & Associates Inc.<br>3020 Holcomb Bridge Rd. NW<br>Norcross, GA<br>30071<br>Tel (770) 446-9606<br>GoogleVoice (678) 587-8649<br>
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