bpstart_notify script hangs when a script is called via ssh on a remote server

[Tarminator]

Hi Folks,

I'm hoping someone might be able to help me out, Some background info first:

NBU v6.5.2A ; Sol10 Master; RHEL4x64 Media; WIN2k3 Media

bpstart_notify.POLICY.SCHED.FULL created on the RHEL media server, this script in turn calls a script on the master server via ssh (Key Auth configured)

If I run the script interactivly it completes with a status code 0, but when I manually start a backup the job eventually times out.

Even the following fails:

ssh user@mediaserver  date >> logfile

All local commands work and write their output to a logfile.

Does anyone have any syntax examples they would like to share?

Thanks in advance,

Nick.

[Tarminator · Accepted solution]

For anyone interested in the fix for this issue, (I'm surprised - not even one response, surely someone has encountered this issue before? Hopefully others will find this useful though):

Calling the script like this works from within bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts.  (The script writes output to a log file on the remote client and returns a status 0 or 1):

SNAPVAL=`ssh nbuadm@nbumaster /export/home/nbuadm/scripts/client/client.sh TEST`

But calling it directly like this didn't:

ssh nbuadm@nbumaster '/export/home/nbuadm/scripts/client/client.sh TEST' >>$OUTF 2>&1

Regards,

Myself.

[nmw]

I've just encountered this exact problem. I'd spent half a day figuring out what was going wrong. Thankfully searching the forum turned up this solution, which is now working perfectly.

I don't know how you thought of running ssh in a shell command substitution, but it I'm glad you did...