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Script hangs while using Fabric's Connection.run() in the background

Overview
I'm trying to use python fabric to run an ssh command as root on a remote server.
The command: nohup ./foo &
foo is expected to command run for several days. I must be able to disassociate foo from fabric's remote ssh session, and put foo in the background.
The Fabric FAQ says you should use something like screen or tmux when you run your fabric script (which runs the backgrounded command). I tried that, but my fabric script still hung. foo is not hanging.
Question
How do I use fabric to run this command on a remote server without the script hanging: nohup ./foo &
Details
This is my script:
#!/bin/sh
# Credit: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/20895/6766
if "true" : '''\'
then
exec "/nfs/it/network_python/$OSREL/bin/python" "$0" "$#"
exit 127
fi
'''
from getpass import getpass
import os
from fabric import Connection, Config
assert os.geteuid()==0, "ERROR: Must run as root"
for host in ['host1.foo.local', 'host2.foo.local']:
# Make an ssh connection to the host...
conn = Connection(host)
# The script always hangs at this line
result = conn.run('nohup ./foo &', warn=True, hide=True)
I always open a tmux session to run the aforementioned script in; even doing so, the script hangs when I get to conn.run(), above.
I'm running the script on a vanilla CentOS 6.5 VM; it runs under python 2.7.10 and fabric 2.1.

The Fabric FAQ is unclear... I thought the FAQ wanted tmux used on the local side when I executed the Fabric script.
The correct way to fix this problem is to replace nohup in the remote command, with screen -d -m <command>. Now I can run the whole script locally with no hangs (and I don't have to use tmux in the local term).
Explicitly, I have to rewrite the last line of my script in my question as:
# Remove &, and nohup...
result = conn.run('screen -d -m ./foo', warn=True, hide=True)

ssh restrict commands using Python

I am using a python script to restrict the commands usage using the command argument in the authorized_keys file.
command:
ssh host-name bash --login -c 'exec $0 "$#"' mkdir -p hello
My script is performing required actions to restrict the commands. After filtering, the python script does sys.exit(1) for error and sys.exit(0) for success. After the return value the above ssh command is not getting executed at the end. Is there something else I need to send from the python script to SSH daemon?

The command modifier in the authorized_keys is not (only) used to validate the users command, but that command is run instead of the command provided by the user. This means calling sys.exit(0) from there prevents running the user-provided command.
In that script, after you validate the command, you need to run it too!

I think changing it to
ssh host-name bash --login -c 'exec $0 "$#" && mkdir -p hello'
should do the trick, otherwise bash will assume only the part in the single quotes is the command to execute.
If the second part should be executed even if the first part fails, replace the && with ;

how to programmatically(python) execute terminal commands after invoking shell script(control will be under shell script))

OS:Ubuntu 16.04LTS.
Python automation.
Hi, i am trying to do python automation in ubuntu, where i have to invoke a shell script programmatically, after invoking shell script i need to enter and execute terminal commands.
i am invoking shell script with below commands
import os
os.system("gnome-terminal --working-directory='/home/murlee/CTS/android-cts/tools' -e 'bash -c \"./cts-tradefed; exec bash\"'")
*now i need help to enter and executing terminal commands after invoking the shell script
after invoking shell script my terminal will look like this
Terminal_snapshot
"murlee#murlee-Lenovo-ideapad-100-14IBD:~/CTS/android-cts/tools$
./cts-tradefed
Android CTS 6.0_r17 build: 3866870
cts-tf >(here i have to enter commands and execute)"
Thanks!

Create an init script named my-init.sh
./cts-tradefed
Now call
import os
wd = '/home/murlee/CTS/android-cts/tools'
cmd = "bash --init-file {0}".format('./my-init.sh')
os.system("gnome-terminal --working-directory='{0}' -e '{1}'").format(wd,cmd)

Python paramiko hangs when trying to run bash shell

I need to run a regression script in bash shell on a remote server. I am able to successfully connect and execute different commands using paramiko. But when I try to execute '/bin/bash' my Python script hangs forever:
stdin,stdout,stderr = ssh.exec_command("pwd;/bin/bash;echo $SHELL")
Without /bin/bash echo $SHELL works good and returns the following:
[u'/home/akar\n', u'/tools/cfr/bin/tcsh\n']
Is there any workaround?

My first doubt is what is the purpose of the bash you are executing. Literally it means:
pwd; #print '/home/akar\n' as it results
/bin/bash; #/bin/bash will take over of console(stdin/stdout/stderr) from here
echo $SHELL #when you input exit to exit the bash from line 2, line 3 will print

Python - String deformats when running via SSH

I need to run some bash commands via Fabric API (ssh).
I have the following String in my Python module:
newCommand = command + "'`echo -ne '\\015'"
When I print this string directly in Python the output is the expected:
command'`echo -ne '\015'
However, if I try to run this command via the Fabric API the command is somehow modified into this:
/bin/bash -l -c "command'\`echo -ne '\015'"
Notice the '\' before 'echo'. Why is this happenning? The '\' is breaking my command and I can't successfuly run the command.
ps: The prefix "/bin/bash -l -c" is expected since that's how Fabric works with SSH

This is not a valid shell command:
command'`echo -ne '\015'
Even if you add the missing backtick and single quote, it's nothing like writing "command" and pressing enter.
The context your command will be run in is basically what you'd get if you'd ssh and paste a command:
clientprompt$ ssh host
Welcome to Host, User
hostprompt$ <COMMAND HERE>
You should focus your efforts on finding a single command that does what you want, and not a series of keypresses that you could write to do it (that's not how ssh works).