[Fab-user] using sudo and rm/mv

[William Liu]

I've recently stumbled upon Fabric and its been a great tool.  Things  
have been working great, but one slight problem.  In my script, I have  
a few calls which do some filesystem manipulation, specifically  
removing a directory (rm -fr olddir) and renaming (mv newdir olddir)  
-- I'm using 'sudo' to do this on a remote machine.

Even though on the remote machine, the call goes through (e.g. the  
directory is removed), locally, I get an error saying the sudo  
operation failed (subsequent Socket closed).  To get around this, I've  
simply used the 'fail' kwarg and set it to 'warn'.  I was wondering if  
there was a specific reason why this is happening, or if I'm doing  
something wrong -- thanks,

-w