Re: [Fab-user] fab sudo() doesn't seem to work

[Christian Vest Hansen]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:56 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jeff - thanks for the code/tip, I tried using the branch, installed it,
> and yet I'm still seeing the same problem: seems to hang, have to hit
> CTRL-C, then belatedly see a password prompt.
>
> Note that when I did,
>
> git checkout execution
>
> ...per your instructions, I get an error:
>
> error: pathspec 'execution' did not match any file(s) known to git.
> Did you forget to 'git add'?

$ cat .git/config
(... snip ...)
[remote "bitprophet"]
        url = git://github.com/bitprophet/fabric.git
        fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bitprophet/*

... then:
$ git fetch bitprophet execution

And off you go to $ git checkout execution.


>
> Probably I'm doing something stupid, as I'm not a git user.
>
>
> Per Jordi's suggestion (thank you Jordi), setting sudo to require NOPASSWD
> results in the remote tail command working just fine.  So it is a password
> related problem.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I'm pretty sure my branch does this (I recall putting it in a while
>> ago) so you might want to give it a shot, if you're not averse to
>> installing Git:
>>
>> http://github.com/bitprophet/fabric/tree/execution
>>
>> * Install Git
>> * git clone git://github.com/bitprophet/fabric.git
>> * Enter the 'fabric' directory
>> * git checkout execution   (to switch to that branch)
>> * sudo python setup.py install   (or however you wish to get it onto
>> your PythonPath)
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:06 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Yes, that's probably what's going on - but aren't I supposed to be
>> > presented
>> > with a password prompt, where I enter my sudo password (without the
>> > password
>> > being echoed)?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Christian Vest Hansen
>> > <address@hidden>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is it possible that the sudo command on the server is waiting on a
>> >> password prompt?
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:19 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> > I'm not using tail -f, just tail, and I've tested the command in
>> >> > question on
>> >> > my remote server's command line without a problem.  Again, no sight
>> >> > of a
>> >> > password prompt or anything else - things just seem to hang, so I hit
>> >> > CTRL-C
>> >> > to get out of it, at which point I see the error message mentioned.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Christian Vest Hansen
>> >> > <address@hidden>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > I actually don't see a -f in Shev's original email though -- am I
>> >> >> > missing something or are you actually just running "tail X" which
>> >> >> > should simply output the last 10 lines of X?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The dash-ef is an assumption on my part, because I have had troubles
>> >> >> with tail -f in the past.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
>> >> >> Christian Vest Hansen.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
>> >> Christian Vest Hansen.
>> >
>> >
>
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Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Christian Vest Hansen.