On Friday, 18 December 2015 17:03:17 UTC+1, Lee Hambley wrote: > > First of all, well read - the `:background => true` is deprecated, because > backgrounding things is hard, and unreliable, basically as you might have > seen all it does it `nohup` and `&` if memory serves. >
Yes I noticed :) I Like to be informed before ask > So there's two things you can do, the one - as you alluded to is `&` on > the end of the line. The other would be `nohup` yourself, it'd be > interesting to know *what* you are trying to background, as weird processes > refuse to play well in the background in different ways. > The whole thing is to put "on background" a three line bash script that makes a "aws ec2 wait snapshot-completed" (no loops, no forks, no services, straight and simple thing that can work or not, but doesn't affect the deploy) and inform of the result by slack, for a snapshot that I asked to create in the previous commands of the capistrano task. The task just creates an snapshot of the deployed app EBS, but these snapshots sometimes take a bit to complete, that's why I want to "fire and forget" that script (it gives independent feedback, also) > Let's see if we can solve this for you :) > Well I'm very aware of the imitations of nohups, job control and the like, perhaps I can mimic the :background to get my own "non-deprecated" background and do my own tests. I know that fork processes over ssh conections can work for certain use cases, but cannot be guaranteed for all the use cases ;) Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Capistrano" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/capistrano/9c7e5aec-7a79-4326-80a8-713e34f0e00d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
