How to interact with installer on remote host using Fabric and Python

Question

I use fabric to run an installer on remote host

def test(): run("sh /opt/foo.bin") The output looks like:

[user@remoteHost:22] out: PRESS TO CONTINUE:

..........

During the installation i need to press Enter several times and input some info. Are there any possibility to automate this operations (press and input text info) using Fabric?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '12 at 17:15

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No, you're looking more for pxepect, but you can use this module and it's functionality inside fabric tasks. It's just that Fabric doesn't keep state, and also doesn't have functionality to interact with prompts in a scripted way. It expects the user to interact, in those cases.

answered May 02 '12 at 17:15

Morgan

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Could you give us also some example use within Fabric? – Tadeck May 03 '12 at 21:47
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Take a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10483096/708221 or here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10007635/708221 – Jasper van den Bosch May 07 '12 at 13:46
thanks for the work, and example. In this specific use case, `yes | cmd`, might work simpler, but cool stuff all around. – Morgan May 08 '12 at 21:38

How to interact with installer on remote host using Fabric and Python

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