Jesse Rosenthal wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm writing a script which will backup data from my machine to a server
> using rsync. It checks to see if I am on the local network. If I am, it
> runs rsync over ssh to 192.168.2.6 using the pexpect module to log in.
> That's the easy part.
>
> Now, when I'm not on the local network, I first want to open up an ssh
> connection to do port forwarding, so something like this:
>
> def hostforward():
> #This is based on the assumption that the passfile is the gnus
> #authinfo file, or has a similar format...
> f = open(PASS_FILE, "r")
> f_list = f.read().split(' ')
> f.close()
> #Now, we get the entry after "password" (be slicker to make it a
> #dictionary, but maybe wouldn't work as well).
> pass_index = f_list.index('password') + 1
> forwardpass = f_list[pass_index]
> #now we connect
> command = 'ssh -l %s -L 2022:%s:22 %s' % \
> (login, my_server, forwarding_server)
> connection = pexpect.spawn(command)
> connection.expect('.*assword:')
> connection.sendline(forwardpass)
>
> If I end this with 'connection.interact()', I will end up logged in to the
> forwarding server. But what I really want is to go on and run rsync to
> localhost port 2022, which will forward to my_server port 22. So, how can
> I put the ssh connection I set up in hostforward() in the background?
> I need to make sure that connection is made before I can run the rsync
> command.
>
> I've looked at threading, but that seems excessive. There must be an
> easier way. Whatever I do, though, I'll need to use pexpect to spawn the
> processes, since I'll need to log in to ssh servers with a password.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --Jesse
>
>
I am not sure I understand you correctly (my english is a bit limited)
Can you not use something like:
rsync --timeout=5 -e "ssh --with-many-options"
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