[ale] ssh question

[Scott McBrien]

Use an ssh key for your authentication and then:

ssh servername 'commands; to; run'

The ssh session will close when your commands exit.

-Scott

On May 10, 2012, at 7:59 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com> wrote:

> 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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