Re: remote ssh commands

2016-06-02 Thread der.hans
Am 31. May, 2016 schwätzte Nadim Hoque so: moin moin Nadim, as Brian mentioned it sounds like ou might have a blank line in the file. ssh ${server:-pleasedonotusethisasahostname}.localdomain 'yum update -y && poweroff' Or just verify that you have a valid value before using it :). ciao, der.

Re: remote ssh commands

2016-05-31 Thread Nadim Hoque
Sean, Well when I just run the 'yum update -y' it runs it just fine but the && poweroff runs on the local machine. Also I have another script that does the following: #!/bin/bash for server in $(cat serverlist.txt); do ssh $server.localdomain 'poweroff' done and also running that just p

Re: remote ssh commands

2016-05-31 Thread Brien Dieterle
You probably have a blank line in your serverlist.txt, resulting in $server being null: ping .localdomain PING .localdomain(localhost (::1%1)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from localhost (::1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.017 ms 64 bytes from localhost (::1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms On Tue, May

Re: remote ssh commands

2016-05-31 Thread sean
Could a bad dns record or host entry point one of the lines in the file back to itself? Is the yum update also being run on the host? Try a different command in the loop, e.g. 'echo $server > /tmp/test' should be a good troubleshooting start. On May 31, 2016 9:34 PM, "Nadim Hoque" wrote: > Its a

Re: remote ssh commands

2016-05-31 Thread Nadim Hoque
Its a virtual to virtual setup. All the guests are on the bridge connection that I have made so that they are on the same network. To answer your question I am not touching the VM host at all. On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:27 PM, sean wrote: > Are you running this on a virtual machine? If so, are yo

Re: remote ssh commands

2016-05-31 Thread sean
Are you running this on a virtual machine? If so, are you powering off its host machine? On May 31, 2016 9:22 PM, "Nadim Hoque" wrote: > Fellow Pluggers, > > So I am trying to perform a remote poweroff command and for some reason > the host powers itself off. I am able to run another command such