<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the idea.<div style>As I don't like spreading scripts on clients with login/password, I'll try to do the same from the server (searching for systems without the custom key set, and setting it if empty)</div> <div style> </div><div style>Thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2012/12/19 Jason M. Nielsen <<a href="mailto:jnielsen@myriad.com" target="_blank">jnielsen@myriad.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Submit a custom system info variable back to the host profile and use that in the config file. I have a bash script that runs during a build that generates the values for variables then submits them back with a python script. ie: #!/bin/bash /root/bin/submit_custom_system_info.py hostname_short `hostname -s` ... #!/usr/bin/python import xmlrpclib import getpass import sys from socket import gethostname SATELLITE_URL = "<a href="https://spacewalk.myriad.com/rpc/api" target="_blank">https://spacewalk.myriad.com/rpc/api</a>" SATELLITE_LOGIN = "submitvar" SATELLITE_PASSWORD = "SubV@R1t" client = xmlrpclib.Server(SATELLITE_URL, verbose=0) key = client.auth.login(SATELLITE_LOGIN, SATELLITE_PASSWORD) fin = open('/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid') file = list() for line in fin: file.append(line) system_id = int(file[file.index('<name>system_id</name>\n')+1][18:28]) field_name = sys.argv[1] field_value = sys.argv[2] print "%s: %s: %s\n" % (system_id,field_name,field_value) client.system.setCustomValues(key,system_id,{field_name: field_value}) client.auth.logout(key)<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On 12/19/2012 12:38 AM, Pierre Casenove wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hello, I can't as I want to use the macro in some configuration files, where you can't put scripts in them Pierre 2012/12/19 Jørgen Hysvær Langgåt <<a href="mailto:jorgenhl@gmail.com" target="_blank">jorgenhl@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Pierre Casenove <<a href="mailto:pcasenove@gmail.com" target="_blank">pcasenove@gmail.com</a>>wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hello list, The RHN predefined macro rhn.system.hostname allows you to get the FQDN of a client. In order to manage the /etc/hosts file on some hosts, I would like to get the FQDN and the short name. How could I perform this? </blockquote> How about "cut -d. -f 1" from the FQDN? Regards, Jørgen _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>