Net/ssh & send_data

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Hi,

I would like to use the net/ssh gem to connect to an ssh server, execute a command, and send data to the command's standard input. So far I've managed to do this using the on_data callback:

ch.exec "mycommand" do |ch, success|

ch.on_data do |ch, data| #Wait for invitation on std-out and send message on std-in
     output << data
         if input != nil then
             ch.send_data(input.gsub("\n","\r")+"\n") #Fix to prevent multi line data from ending the data stream, append newline
         end
end

end

However, this is slightly suboptimal - it means that the listening script has to send something to standard out before I can send data to it's stdin. Does anyone have clue how this can be implemented without using the on_data callback?

Kind regards,

Dawa

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Dawa Ometto wrote:

However, this is slightly suboptimal - it means that the listening
script has to send something to standard out before I can send data to
it's stdin. Does anyone have clue how this can be implemented without
using the on_data callback?

Not exactly answering your question, but Net::SSH::Telnet is a small
wrapper around Net::SSH which gives it an API much more similar to
Net::Telnet, which in turn is more of an expect-like interface.

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Thanks for the reply. Been a while since I managed to take a look at this, but Net::SSH::Telnet doesn't seem to be exactly what I want. I've noticed that in the net/ssh version < 2, a 'popen3' command is implemented that allows me to do exactly what I want, as e.g. here:

The magic is in session.process.popen3('command'), when 'session' is a running net::ssh session. However, session.process returns something entirely different in net:ssh v2 and up, and the popen3 method doesn't seem to be implemented at all. This essentially looks like a downgrade to me, or is there another way to get something like popen3 working? If not, would it be safe to use a pre-2.0 version of net-ssh?

Cheers,

Dawa Ometto

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On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:37 PM, Brian Candler wrote:

Not exactly answering your question, but Net::SSH::Telnet is a small
wrapper around Net::SSH which gives it an API much more similar to
Net::Telnet, which in turn is more of an expect-like interface.

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Dawa Ometto wrote:

If not, would it be safe to use a pre-2.0 version of net-ssh?

Depends what you mean by "safe". I don't know if Net::SSH 1.x is being
maintained; it may not work with ruby 1.9 for example. But it works fine
with 1.8.x and I'm not aware of any known security issues.

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