Last week I was working with an issue that when running a very simple SSH action through Oozie, the job kept failing with “externalId cannot be empty” error. The workflow only had one single SSH action, and nothing else. See the workflow example below: And the error message from the …
To pass custom private key (custom identity file, rather than the default one from .ssh directory) when connection via sftp, use the following command: The “-v” option will print out verbose debugging information, “-o” allows us to pass ssh options, in this case we pass “IdentityFile” with value “/path/to/custom/.ssh/id_rsa”.
SSH allows administrators to set a timeout to log users out automatically after a certain period of idle time. Find ClientAliveInterval and set to 300 (5 minutes) as follows: ClientAliveInterval sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received from the client, secshd will send …
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