Travis-ci doesn't quit after running bash script over ssh to start activator - linux

Question

We are trying to have travis continually deploy to our own server when our build is successful.
env:
global:
- ACTIVATOR_VERSION=1.3.7
- ACTIVATOR_ZIP_FILE=typesafe-activator-${ACTIVATOR_VERSION}-minimal.zip
- ACTIVATOR_ZIP_URL=http://downloads.typesafe.com/typesafe-activator/${ACTIVATOR_VERSION}/${ACTIVATOR_ZIP_FILE}
- ACTIVATOR_BIN=${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/activator-${ACTIVATOR_VERSION}-minimal/activator
- "DEPLOY_USERNAME=#######"
- "DEPLOY_PASSWORD=########"
- "DEPLOY_HOST=########"
language: java
jdk:
- oraclejdk8
addons:
ssh_known_hosts:
- ########
apt:
packages:
- sshpass
install:
- wget $ACTIVATOR_ZIP_URL
- unzip -q $ACTIVATOR_ZIP_FILE
script:
- $ACTIVATOR_BIN test
after_success:
- sshpass -p $DEPLOY_PASSWORD ssh $DEPLOY_USERNAME#$DEPLOY_HOST -o stricthostkeychecking=no 'bash deploy.sh'
After our travis finishes without errors it runs an ssh script on our server to pull from our git, stop our running activator and start a new one.
The script:
#!/bin/bash
#Get the path of the local repository directory
set -o verbose
DIR="/home/ftpuser/eaglescience/"
TARGET="origin/develop"
SLEEP=1m
#echo "Go into directory " ${DIR}
cd ${DIR}
PID="`cat target/universal/stage/RUNNING_PID`"
#echo "Get the code from " ${TARGET}
git fetch --all
#echo "force checkout"
git checkout --force "${TARGET}"
#echo "Compiling activator"
activator clean stage
#echo "Running activator"
kill -15 ${PID}
target/universal/stage/bin/eaglescience -Dapplication.secret=############### &
#echo "Running..."
sleep ${SLEEP}
exit 0
The problem here is that Travis-ci does not exit the bash script after it runs (even with the exit 0). This means that Travis-CI will keep waiting for a response until it times out and erros our build
The response we got after a while is the following:
[success] Total time: 33 s, completed Mar 9, 2016 11:19:20 AM
#echo "Running activator"
kill -15 ${PID}
target/universal/stage/bin/eaglescience -Dapplication.secret=########### &
#echo "Running..."
sleep ${SLEEP}
[warn] - application - system properties: application.secret is deprecated, use play.crypto.secret instead
[info] - play.api.Play - Application started (Prod)
[info] - play.core.server.NettyServer - Listening for HTTP on /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:9000
exit 0
No output has been received in the last 10 minutes, this potentially indicates a stalled build or something wrong with the build itself.
The build has been terminated
We have tried a lot of different things, we have tried to run the ssh bash command silent. But then travis-ci terminates the connection almost instantly and the command wil not run. We also tried to add && exit 0 but then the server still keeps waiting on response.

Answer 1

Try using nohup the shell file with output to /dev/null 2>&1 & eg : nohup filename.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &