Yes, there is actually. Try: ssh_options[:timeout] = 15
That lets you set the number of seconds to wait for connection to be established. - Jamis On 1/29/09 11:14 AM, Gary Richardson wrote: > I see where you're coming from. This is a bit of an edge case, and the > work around is to use a monitoring system to tell you when a system dies :) > > I suppose I'm not really looking for a command timeout, more a timeout > on the SSH connection. It never completes the authentication handshake, > as far as I can tell. The port is responsive, but OpenSSH never sends a > banner and input is ignored. > > Does an SSH timeout feature exist? > > Thanks! > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jamis Buck <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Gary, > > There's not currently any way to set a timeout on a command. I'd be a > little nervous about adding such a setting, because I fear it would set > expectations. For instance, suppose you have a timeout on a long-running > command. The timeout expires, and Capistrano closes the connection. > Would users expect capistrano to also try and abort the command? Would > they be surprised to see the command still running on the host after > Capistrano times out? > > That said, if someone wants to try and roll a patch for Capistrano that > implements command timeouts, I'd consider it. Especially if they're able > to address the "what happens on the server when a timeout expires" > question, unambiguously. > > - Jamis > > On 1/29/09 10:25 AM, Gary Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently load testing an application and I seem to be crashing > > some of my cluster members. They still respond to pings, but when I > > try to run commands against them, they hang. I'm assuming this is > > because Capistrano is able to connect to the SSH port, but it doesn't > > respond. > > > > For example, cap invoke COMMAND=uptime will sit forever waiting for > > the port to respond. > > > > Is there away to set a timeout for a command? That would make it easy > > for me to figure out which hosts were dead. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
