Re: [Fab-user] Using reboot in a fabfile

[Jeff Forcier]

Hi Dan,

Can you post your entire fabfile (with anything sensitive removed, and including import statements) on, say, gist.github.com or dpaste.com? The example in the email itself has a handful of issues but seeing the whole thing will make some of them clearer :)

I can definitely say that if your post below is literal, your first issue is you probably aren't actually calling `reboot` because there's no parentheses after it! (`reboot` vs `reboot()`) - but depending on your imports, once you fix that you'll probably have a few more problems besides...

Here's what you are _probably_ going for, by the way:

```

from fabric.api import task, reboot as builtin_reboot

@task

def reboot():

  with hide("everything"), show("stderr"):

    builtin_reboot()

```

(With option to name your task something besides `reboot`, and then not doing the `import x as y` form when importing the builtin.)

Best,

Jeff

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:38 AM, Daniel Lumb <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi all, 

New to Fabric and this is a very basic question but I'm finding it crazily hard to find the right documentation/usage examples... 

I'm trying to create a series of tasks in fabfile.py, one of these tasks is solely intended to reboot the target servers. I can't seem to define this in a way that works, this is what I have: 

@task

def reboot():

    with hide ("everything"), show ("stderr"):

reboot

This runs OK using the fab binary on the CLI but it doesn't seem to actually do anything on the target servers. I've tried a fair few other things and haven't had any success. 

Apologies this is so simple, a link to any relevant documentation is fine. 

Thanks, 

Dan

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