please use the mailing list to ask questions...
anyway, you want to run a process on a remote machine and get back its
stdout/err?
just use the subprocess module, like so:
c = rpyc.classic.connect("my-other-machine")
proc = c.modules.subprocess.Popen(["/the/program", "--and", "some",
"arguments"], stdin = subprocess.PIPE, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr =
subprocess.PIPE)
stdout, stderr = proc.communicate()
you can then call proc.terminate() or kill() to terminate the program after
a certain timeout.
if it's on a posix machine, you can use select(), otherwise, start a thread
(see threading.Timer in the stdlib).
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 13:31, Ido <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use rpyc to run commands on remote servers.
> I am interested in sending back STDOUT/ERR responses to the client, and
> having the option of terminating the running command after a predefined
> timeout. I care less if its run async or not.
>
> My problem is that Popen has blocking reads, and will also need to be
> terminated manually ? (It seems that if I use rpyc.timeout, although the
> client times out, the popen/command continues to run on the server).
>
> I'm not much of a python programmer, however this is my only need.
> I also googled around, and tried hacking a fix myself, but was
> unsuccessful.
>
> Can you please tell me what needs to be done ? (or maybe hack up a
> solution yourself for me :)
>
> Toda.
>
>
