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12 years ago
Hi,
If you are having problems with running a ssh2 session and it waits forever during the execution of stream_get_contents, it might be because the remote system has run the command and is now sitting at a # prompt waiting for the next command.  I had this issue on a HP MSA box, here is the code to get around the issue.

Assuming you are connected with your authentication method and $ssh contains the handle.

<?php
$command = "check disk";
// Open a nice large window to stop wrapping
$stream = ssh2_shell ($ssh, 'xterm', null, 200, 200, SSH2_TERM_UNIT_CHARS); 

// Hook into the error stream
$errorStream = ssh2_fetch_stream($stream, SSH2_STREAM_STDERR);  

// Block the streams so we wait until they complete
stream_set_blocking ($stream, true);
stream_set_blocking($errorStream, true);

// Send the commands to the terminal
fwrite ($stream, $command . PHP_EOL );

// Wait give the terminal a chance to accept and start processing the command, this is a slow storage device after all
sleep(2);

// IMPORTANT BIT!!  Send exit to the terminal to close the connection BEFORE WE WAIT FOR THE STREAM
fwrite ($stream, "exit" . PHP_EOL );
sleep (2);

// Print the output
echo stream_get_contents($stream);
$errortext=stream_get_contents($errorStream);

if (strlen($errortext) > 0) {
          // Error Data
         echo "Error Data: $errortext";
         exit (1);
}

// All Good
exit (0);

?>

You can't use ssh2_exec with this method (well at lease I couldn't) because on executing the first command the stream gets blocked and then you can't run the exit command, whereas a terminal seems to use one session.

I hope this helps someone.
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