If a connection and stdin are idle for more than timeout seconds, then the connection is silently closed. withou this paramter, nc will listen forever for a connection. This may cause our test hang. redmine issue: http://redmine.englab.nay.redhat.com/issues/show/6947 Add -w parameter should fix this issue. Signed-off-by: Feng Yang <fyang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py index a51c857..526d38d 100644 --- a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py +++ b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ def remote_login(client, host, port, username, password, prompt, linesep="\n", elif client == "telnet": cmd = "telnet -l %s %s %s" % (username, host, port) elif client == "nc": - cmd = "nc %s %s" % (host, port) + cmd = "nc %s %s -w %s" % (host, port, timeout) else: logging.error("Unknown remote shell client: %s" % client) return -- 1.6.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html