Remote machines trying to contact remote machines despite being called remotely themselves

[j-lakeman]

Erroneous Behavior

remote machines trying to contact themselves / other remote machines upon remote execution

Expected Behavior

remote machines shouldnt "chain" but ignore remote machine entries in topgrade.toml

Steps to reproduce

1. have a topgrade.toml with remote machines in it
2. have that same file on remote machine
3. run topgrade on host
4. remote machines trying to contact themselves / other remote machines

Possible Cause (Optional)

topgrade doesn't check whether being invoked by another host

Problem persists without calling from topgrade

• Yes
• No

Did you run topgrade through Remote Execution

• Yes
• No

If yes, does the issue still occur when you run topgrade directlly in your
remote host

• Yes

• No

• Installation
  Homebrew

• Topgrade version (topgrade -V)
  Topgrade 14.0.1

[SteveLauC]

remote machines trying to contact themselves

So I guess in your configuration file, remote_topgrades has user specified, i.e., something like:

[misc]
remote_topgrades = ["user@host"]

If that is the case, yeah, this is bug and it has been fixed in #755

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remote machines trying to contact other remote machines upon remote execution

This is the expected behavior since they are specified in the configuration file.