On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Taras Mankovski<tar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Concrete example is right here: http://gist.github.com/181654 Whoops! Sorry about that, totally forgot you'd included that in the original email :) Just read it over now and I can see why you said it works correctly as-is. I guess your problem isn't technical so much as it is mental, going by the below? (I don't mean that in a denigrating way, FYI.) > But that's part > of the problem, to me ssh'ing into my own machine, seems hashish and > strange, because I'm already in shell when I execute the command, so > why am connecting to my machine again just to perform the actions that > can easily be executed without creating another shell. I just don't see why you feel this way about the "extra" SSH session -- it's very low overhead and shouldn't be any more difficult than the normal use-case (especially if you're using an SSH keychain and have "ForwardAgent yes" in your ~/.ssh/config). For example, I do this all the time on one of my work projects because I inherited it and it already had a robust set of Capistrano scripts for starting/stopping the various daemons. Instead of trying to screw around and make them work as local-only Rake scripts, I simply pointed the Cap scripts at localhost (this is on a dev VM) and bam, problem solved. This is, IMO, just like programming against an interface: make your stuff work against any server offering SSH, and you can point it any server over SSH -- even if that "server" is the local host. So, again -- I don't see that there is any downside to SSHing back to your local host, while your suggested change *does* have a significant downside: more complexity in code and behavior. More complexity for no real, solid gain is bad :( > Looks good, but is it possible to provide more parameters or settings > then just host_string? Such as? Right now, sudo and run and friends are (connection-wise) very simple, they just connect to a single host and run their course, returning captured stdout. The host_string is all that is necessary for this -- what else are you looking to alter? :) (serious question! this part of Fab, intra-task host tweaking, could use some work.) Regards, Jeff _______________________________________________ Fab-user mailing list Fab-user@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user
