From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-01-14T22:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ssh output buffer getting cut off

On 1/14/07, Jacob, Raymond A Jr <raymond.jacob@navy.mil> wrote:
> I am running net-ssh(1.0.10)  and ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
>
> When I execute the following:
>         ...
>         session.process.open3("/usr/bin/netstat -pn") do
> |input,output,error|
>           puts "#{output.read}"
>         end
>         ....
> The output is cutoff. Logging into the system and running the command
> /usr/bin/netstat -pn | wc -c   the command outputs 10219 bytes
>
> When substite "ls -last"  for ".../netstat -pn"  I get all of the output
> Checking the amount of data returned by running: ls -last | wc -c  the
> command outputs 6799 bytes.
>
> My assumption is that there is default buffer size that I have exceeded
> or
>  the buffer is waiting to be flushed and the process ends before this
> happens
>  or there is something in my output that causes the buffer be flushed
> prematurely.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might overcome this problem.

Long time ago somebody had similar problem with ssh truncating data. I
don't remeber whether it was on ruby-talk, ruby-core or mongrel-users,
nor how did he solve it. I remember it involved scp. So  try looking
for scp in the archives.