Long-running ssh commands in python paramiko module (and how to end them)

Question

I want to run a tail -f logfile command on a remote machine using python\'s paramiko module. I\'ve been attempting it so far in the following fashion:

Answer 1

1) You can just close the client if you wish. The server on the other end will kill the tail process.

2) If you need to do this in a non-blocking way, you will have to use the channel object directly. You can then watch for both stdout and stderr with channel.recv_ready() and channel.recv_stderr_ready(), or use select.select.