Running long script in the background

[Jordan]

On Feb 6, 8:26 am, "watter... at gmail.com" <watter... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to write a python cgi that calls a script over ssh, the
> problem is the script takes a very long time to execute so Apache
> makes the CGI time out and I never see any output.  The script is set
> to print a progress report to stdout every 3 seconds but I never see
> any output until the child process is killed.
>
> Here's what I have in my python script:
>
> command = "ssh -l root %s /scripts/xen/xen-create-win-vps1.sh %s" %
> (host, domuname)
> output = os.popen(command)
> for line in output:
>    print line.strip()
>
> Here's a copy of the bash script.
>
> http://watters.ws/script.txt
>
> I also tried using os.spawnv to run ssh in the background and nothing
> happens.
>
> Does anybody know a way to make output show in real time?

Just a little note: os.popen has been replaced by the subprocess
module.  ;D