You may have to specify your shell on your embedded device.  What device
and shell are you using?

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:29 PM, cesdaile <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yep on the current version of ssh2 - just installed this week.
>
> Ok - I think I am closer to figuring this out now with your help.
>
> The code on your gist works just as expected on a regular centos host but
> when I try it against my target server the *exec* option does trigger.
> The difference I suspect is that my target server is an embedded device and
> maybe it has some funky terminal settings I am not accounting for.
>
> The ssh login presents a banner and prompt as follows:
>
> Last login: Fri Oct 10 12:19:01 2014 from 10.240.106.106
>
>
>
> (console) #
>
> I seem to only have success when using *shell* and performing a
> *stream.write* with \n to execute the desired commands.
>
> On Friday, October 10, 2014 5:04:04 AM UTC-7, mscdex wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, October 10, 2014 1:46:41 AM UTC-4, cesdaile wrote:
>>>
>>> What I meant by 'choking' is that I am seeing a premature close on the
>>> stream when the output exceeds approx. 400 lines. Smaller output sizes seem
>>> to complete reliably and I can parse the entire command output without any
>>> troubles.
>>>
>>
>> I haven't experienced that at all. Are you using the latest version of
>> ssh2?
>>
>> Also, I don't think you need to use `shell()` for your purposes. I think
>> `exec()` should work fine, you just have to prefix your actual command with
>> "no paging;" (assuming that is a valid remote command) since it seems like
>> that's what you're currently trying to do. Your script should be something
>> as simple as this (substituting the 'cat /var/log/messages' with your `cmd`
>> variable): https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1a786c62927c632a23ed
>>
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