[ale] ssh question

[Edward Holcroft]

Morning all

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:

sshpass -p '1qazxsw2' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no
root at 192.168.50.87/etc/init.d/asterisk restart

The problem is this command never logs out:

Stopping safe_asterisk: [  OK  ]
Shutting down asterisk: [  OK  ]
Starting asterisk: [  OK  ]

.... and there it sits, until I manually close it

I also tried using -t with the ssh command, which closes the session, but
without restarting the service, even though it says it did:

$ sshpass -p '1qazxsw2' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -t
root at 192.168.50.87 "/etc/init.d/asterisk restart"
Stopping safe_asterisk:                                    [FAILED]
Shutting down asterisk:                                    [FAILED]
Starting asterisk:                                         [  OK  ]
Connection to 192.168.50.87 closed.

I found this article:

http://www.snailbook.com/faq/background-jobs.auto.html

And tried:

$ sshpass -p '1qazxsw2' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no
root at 192.168.50.87/etc/init.d/asterisk restart < /dev/null

which also does not close.

Any ideas on how I can get this to run the way I want it to?

ed
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