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Drist release with persistent ssh

Written by Solène, on 18 February 2019.
Tags: #unix #automation #drist

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Drist see its release 1.04 available. This adds support for the flag -p to make the ssh connection persistent across the script using the ssh ControlMaster feature. This fixes one use case where you modify ssh keys in two operations: copy file + script to change permissions and this makes drist a lot faster for fast tasks.

Drist makes a first ssh connection to get the real hostname of the remote machine, and then will ssh for each step (copy, copy-hostname, absent, absent-hostname, script, script-hostname), this mean in the use case where you copy one file and reload a service, it was doing 3 connections. Now with the persistent flag, drist will keep the first connection and reusing it, closing the control socket at the end of the script.

Drist is now 121 lines long.

Download v1.04

SHA512 checksum, it is split it in two to not break the display:

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