Re: [Fab-user] Remote bash script wont run via Fabric

[Jeff Forcier]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:

> Not specifically, but this (init-style scripts which don't error but
> also don't actually start their daemon) is an issue which pops up
> sporadically and I don't believe we've figured out what the cause is
> yet.

Update: I did find one earlier ticket reference to this (usually it
just comes up in IRC) but since it may only be a related issue, I made
a new specific ticket here:

    http://code.fabfile.org/issues/show/395

I also tried to reproduce it myself on latest master, and I can -- but
not consistently. I'd say maybe 50% or less of the time it fails to
start (in this case, apache2, on an Ubuntu 10.04 VM). As reported by
yourself and others, the return values of the function are the same
regardless of actual success or failure.

I'll dig more and see what I can find -- I still suspect something in
the way init scripts work is the culprit here, so the trick will be
figuring out what that is and how we can deal with it on our end (or
at least educate users.) Hopefully it's something tty-related, which
is easily manipulated with the pty kwarg.

-Jeff

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Jeff Forcier
Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby engineer
http://bitprophet.org