[Swift-devel] ssh template

[jonmon at mcs.anl.gov]

Ok thanks. Just wanted to make sure that what I was thinking and what you were planning was on the same page. 
------Original Message------
From: Mihael Hategan
To: Jonathan Monette
Cc: Michael Wilde
Cc: Swift Devel
Subject: Re: ssh template
Sent: Jan 5, 2012 1:29 PM

On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:35 -0600, Jonathan Monette wrote:
> Mike and Mihael,
>    Yesterday we were talking about a command line execution provider.
> How would that look in the sites file?  For instance how would I start
> a coaster service in the a sites file with the command line provider?
> Would it be <execution provider="coaster" jobmanager="ssh2:pbs"
> url="url"> where ssh2 is the the ssh command line provider.

Yes, that looks right.

> 
> If it was something like this I can then create an ssh master channel
> in my scripts and then Swift can just follow and use the master
> channel when starting coasters.  Is this how the command line provider
> will work?  How do you both imagine it working?

Pretty much. You might not have to if the OS has an agent started and
handles connections already. The same thing would happen as if you typed
"ssh url" on the command line.