I'd drop Capistrano and use SSHKit, the underlying driver in Capistrano v3 (your example is v2) - see https://github.com/capistrano/sshkit/blob/master/EXAMPLES.md#upload-a-file-from-disk and https://github.com/capistrano/sshkit/blob/master/EXAMPLES.md#using-with-rake
Combine those two to recreate what you have above, and mix in some https://github.com/capistrano/sshkit#tunneling-and-other-related-ssh-themes to make sure that you can reach the hosts as you need to, and I think you'll be fine. SSH is probably hanging because your process is hanging onto some resources, that can often be solved by tunneling and/or remotely starting thigns with `ssh me@thehost 'thecommand'`, for example. Hard to say without more info. But, I'd absolutely avoid using Cap v2 if you're starting out, it's more than two years since EOL, but very widely documented/blogged about in the net. Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 1 June 2015 at 21:07, Steve Wechsler <swechs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Versions: > > - Ruby 1.8.7 > - Capistrano v2.5.5 > - Rake / Rails / etc > > Platform: > > - CentOS/Red Hat > > > I'm trying to write a task (to be called from a Perl script) that will > work on any Linux host in my environment. However, since there is only one > host that can SSH to every other host (it can also receive SSH connections > from any host), and I can't guarantee that the task will be running on that > host, I need to find a way to run the task on that host. > > Here's what I came up with so far: > > > set :user, usr > > cmd = "getpass " + user > set :password, `#{cmd}` > > task :distribute, :on_error => :continue do > host_list = hosts.split(',') > servers = [] > host_list.each do |n| > servers.push([n]) > end > filelist=files.split(',') > filelist.each do |f| > upload f, target_dir, { :via => :scp, :hosts => servers, :on_error => > :continue } > end > end > > to be invoked like this: > > /usr/bin/cap -f distribute_file.rb -S usr=user_to_run_as -s > target_dir=/path/to/target -s files=/path/to/source_file -s hosts=(list of > hosts) HOST=master_host > > but that caused it to only run against master_host > > So then I tried executing it with SSH, but that had a tendency to hang, > plus it seemed to me like there should be a built-in method for this. > > I'm a Perl guy and am new to both Ruby and capistrano, so please be gentle > :) > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Capistrano" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to capistrano+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/capistrano/5014b7b3-78f4-44ed-9099-6fce08743222%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/capistrano/5014b7b3-78f4-44ed-9099-6fce08743222%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Capistrano" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to capistrano+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/capistrano/CAN_%2BVLVYF40sCNDpeaSFzj%2BiHuf833h95CMG4_3PhYLZaPkmXQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
