os.system() not responding on django... any reason?

[marduk at python.net]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013, at 09:24 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <4fcc93b7-3be9-416f-a2d4-bdc6cba2133e at googlegroups.com>,
>  Jaiky <jaiprakashsingh213 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [a lot of code involving ssh and paramiko]
> 
> Here's a few general suggestions:
> 
> 1) Try to reduce this to the smallest possible amount of code which 
> demonstrates the problem.  You gave us a page full of complicated stuff.  
> Keep hacking away lines of code that don't change the behavior until you 
> get it down to something small and understandable.
> 
> 2) Try to eliminate environmental problems.  You're running this under 
> django?  Does it work as a stand-alone process (i.e. without django)?


Also, what is the context (Is it running in a Django view; a model? a
signal handler? in settings?)?