IO.popen fails to pen persistent ssh connection

Ruby
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What the?
The following code(see below) works fine in a few of my ruby scripts but
fails on others with the following message:

‘/scripts/ruby/testssh.rb:4: undefined method `exitstatus’ for
nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)’.

I know ssh is working and I can run ssh commands to #{hostname} using
#{username} credentials. I use this exact code in other scripts from the
same workstation, ssh’ing to the same remote host and it works fine.

I’ve copied the following lines and pasted them unto a new file and it
still fails with the above message.

#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
ssh = IO.popen(“ssh #{username}@#{hostname} -T”, “w+”)
status = $?
break unless (status.exitstatus == 0)

Help…
Thank you

Hector

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On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Hector Q. wrote:

#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
ssh = IO.popen(“ssh #{username}@#{hostname} -T”, “w+”)
status = $?
break unless (status.exitstatus == 0)

the process has not exited yet - $? is therefore nil.

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