[Fab-user] fabric and lockfiles, to ensure only a single instance of a fabric task is run at a time

2011-04-12 Thread Robert Terhaar
Hi All, I'm digging deeper into fabric, and I'm curious if anyone out there uses lock files to ensure that only one fabric task is being run at a time? I've found the zc.lockfile python module[1], but I'm not sure what is the best way to integrate this into fabric tasks? [1]

[Fab-user] env.user and prev_user in the presence of env.hosts

2011-04-12 Thread Justin Donaldson
First off, congrats on fabric, this is a really useful tool. I'm using fab with some cloud based infrastructure, especially in situations where host names are transient, and a number of other configuration/connection issues come into play. I was confused by some behavior in fabric. When you set