[Info-vax] Suppress blank lines added by HP SSH?

[John E. Malmberg]

On 2/21/2016 11:11 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
> "-q" seems to offer some improvement:

Yes.  Unfortunately it is not an option I can pass to the Jenkins SSH 
slave startup, and still leaves one blank line.

>     But RSH is better:

But is also not an option for starting a Jenkins slave directly.

There is an alternate launch method for having the Jenkins master issue 
a command to start the slave.

[Needs some hacks to login.com and GNV Bash .bashrc to get the command 
case right on the client and use GNV bash on the client, will document 
that later on a vms-ports wiki.]

This also fails:

[02/22/16 07:44:53] Launching slave agent
$ ssh lion java -jar /solar_root/jeeves/slave.jar

<===[JENKINS REMOTING CAPACITY]===ERROR: Unable to launch the slave 
agent for solar_lion_1
java.io.IOException: Invalid encoded sequence encountered: 0D 0A 65 51 00 00
	at hudson.remoting.BinarySafeStream$1._read(BinarySafeStream.java:194)
...

I suspect that since VMS java knows nothing of GNV bash, it is issuing 
some unknown command as a DCL command and getting the output prefixed by 
the \r\n.


The bottom line is that to have Jenkins run a VMS slave directly will 
probably require modifications to slave.jar.

The fallback is to use a Linux slave to issue commands to the VMS systems.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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