NAME

mlogin - manta interactive session client

SYNOPSIS

mlogin [OPTION...] [OBJECT]

DESCRIPTION

mlogin allows you to spawn an interactive job in Manta. Once running, your terminal will be attached to the remote process running in the job via a shell session tunneled through HTTPS, similar in concept to SSH.

Interactive sessions are a great way to debug a new job script in-situ, or to experience and explore the compute zone environment hands on. It can also become part of a workflow using interactive terminal utilities on large Manta objects without the need to download or transfer the data -- e.g. the the use of mdb (the Modular Debugger) on crash dumps and core files.

The mlogin session terminates when the top level process has exited (usually the interactive shell, unless the -c option was used) and all references to that process's controlling terminal have also been closed. Beware that if you fork a background process and then exit the shell, the background process (and the job) may continue running if they hold the terminal open. You may need to cancel the job in order to stop it.

Note that mlogin makes use of publicly-readable assets stored under the "poseidon" account, which is provided by the system.

EXAMPLES

The default mode of mlogin is to create a reduce job with no input keys. This job has no input data, but gets you a shell running in a Manta compute zone.

mlogin
 * created interactive job
 * waiting for session... established
user@manta # ptree $$
91352 zsched
  2701  ./node lib/agent.js
    2715  /bin/bash --norc
      2735  ptree 2715
user@manta # exit
 * remote process exited
 * cleaning up resources...
 * session complete

A more complicated use of mlogin would be crashdump analysis with mdb:

mlogin -c 'mdb /manta/user/stor/vmcore.1' /user/stor/vmcore.1
 * created interactive job
 * waiting for session... established
Loading modules: [ unix genunix specfs dtrace mac ]
> ::status
debugging crash dump /manta/user/stor/vmcore.1 (64-bit)
operating system: 5.11 joyent_20130226T234312Z (i86pc)
panic message:
BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=ffffff00b8e01070 addr=7b0
> $q
 * remote process exited
 * cleaning up resources...
 * session complete

OPTIONS

The options are supported:

-a, --account login Authenticate as account (login name).

-c, --command shell_command Run shell_command instead of the default shell. This will be passed to bash -c inside the interactive job, and can be used to run a command other than the default interactive shell. Can be especially useful when you provide a script or program to run via --assets.

--disk disk Override the OS quota, and use the specified amount of disk. This option is specified in gigabytes.

-e, --escape escape_character Sets the escape character for this mlogin session. This character is recognised immediately following a carriage return, and allows the user to perform a session control function. If the escape character is followed by a period (.), the session will end; followed by a question mark (?) prints a list of available escape characters. Passing "none" to the -e flag disables the escape character entirely.

-h, --help Print a help message and exit.

--image version Specifies an image version semver to use in job phases. Must be specified as a semver string (default is ~1.0).

--init command Specifies a command to execute in the compute zone. This command will be executed prior to starting the interactive job. This is useful for setup, etc.

-i, --insecure This option explicitly allows "insecure" SSL connections and transfers. All SSL connections are attempted to be made secure by using the CA certificate bundle installed by default.

-k, --key fingerprint Authenticate using the SSH key described by fingerprint. The key must either be in ~/.ssh or loaded in the SSH agent via ssh-add.

--memory memory Override the OS size, and use the specified amount of DRAM. This option is specified in megabytes.

--role=ROLE,ROLE,... Specify which roles to assume for the request.

-s, --assets path Specifies an asset to make available in the compute zone.

--user user Authenticate as user under account.

-u, --url url Manta base URL (such as https://us-central.manta.mnx.io).

-v, --verbose Print debug output to stderr. Repeat option to increase verbosity.

-q, --quiet Don't print session establishment status messages.

ENVIRONMENT

MANTA_USER In place of -a, --account.

MANTA_SUBUSER In place of --user.

MANTA_KEY_ID In place of -k, --key.

MANTA_ROLE In place of --role.

MANTA_URL In place of -u, --url.

MANTA_TLS_INSECURE In place of -i, --insecure.

The shortcut ~~ is equivalent to /:login where :login is the account login name.

BUGS

DSA keys do not work when loaded via the SSH agent.

Report bugs at Github