From: Yoann Guillot <john-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T19:01:35+09:00
Subject: Re: drb over pipes

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:42:49PM +0900, Reto Schuettel wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'd like to establish a drb connection over ssh, preferably over the
> stdin/stdout channels which are provided by ssh itself. Is there a
> drb protocol which uses pipes?  If not, is it easy to implement?
> 
> I've seen that the tcpprotocol uses two connections, this could be
> problem, as pipes/stdin/stdout only provide one stream.
> 
> At the end of the day I'd like to do something like that:
>   # ruby client.rb | ssh host 'ruby agent.rb'
> 

With drb, the client needs to talk to the agent and vice-versa, so this
command line will never work (the client will talk to the agent, but not the
other way around).

> Unfortunately using drb's tcp protocol directly isn't really an option in
> our environment.
> 
> Does anybody have a good idea? 

As suggested, tunelling is probably the best/simpler choice.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> Reto Sch�ttel
> 

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Yoann Guillot