[Fab-user] Fabric with Cygwin + OpenSSH no output

[Vincent Derelle]

Hello,

 

In our organisation we’re using Fabric to manage the execution of commands on both Linux and Windows machines. We installed the Cygwin + the OpenSSH package on our Windows servers.

The problem is that almost ALL commands don’t return output after a fabric execution. Example:

 

fab -H example.test.org runs_in_parallel:date,windows

 

Output:

[vincent-windows-admin-testing12.mqel.ubisoft.com] Executing task 'runs_in_parallel'

[vincent-windows-admin-testing12.mqel.ubisoft.com] run: date

 

Done.

 

 

Same thing for a command that should output something more lines like:

 

fab -H example.test.org runs_in_parallel:cat,windows,/etc/test

 

[vincent-windows-admin-testing12.mqel.ubisoft.com] Executing task 'runs_in_parallel'

[vincent-windows-admin-testing12.mqel.ubisoft.com] run: date

 

Done.

 

Where test is a text file with over 3000 lines of text. I can obviously SSH directly into the Windows server (Cygwin+OpenSSH) and do a ‘cat test’ which will output the contents of the text file.

 

The ONLY command which displays the outputs successfully is ‘chef-client’ which is the Chef (http://www.getchef.com/) client utility which does configuration management for the nodes in our infrastructure.

 

Is anyone here familiar with the idiosyncrasies of Fabric and Cygwin + OpenSSH on a Windows server? Any known tweaks that may be done to solve this?

 

Thanks

Vincent