ksvalidator - can't detect errors?
whitivery
co55-sy1t at dea.spamcon.org
Thu Aug 18 04:01:48 UTC 2011
Matt Rose <mrose at n-able.com> wrote:
>
>On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, whitivery wrote:
>
>> Sometimes ksvalidator will complain but not return an error, for
>> instance:
>>
>> # ksvalidator -v RHEL5 /tmp/tmp.57yMAuel5v
>> The following problem occurred on line 2 of the kickstart file:
>> Unknown command: somesetting1
>> # echo $?
>> 0
>>
>> I want to be able to detect such problems. But when I try to
>> redirect or pipe the output of ksvalidator, it produces no
>> output.
>>
>> How can I detect such problems within a shell script?
>>
>> Fedora 14, pykickstart-1.77-2.
>
>Just another note that both problems mentioned above have been fixed in
>pykickstart 1.82-1
>
>$ cat /etc/fedora-release ; rpm -q pykickstart ; ksvalidator /tmp/foo ;
>echo $?
>Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
>pykickstart-1.82-1.fc15.noarch
>The following problem occurred on line 188 of the kickstart file:
>
>Section does not end with %%end.
>
>1
Thanks for the response.
Just to be clear, the kinds of errors I want to detect are those that
don't currently return 1. Here's an example showing both the inability to
capture output, and errors that return 1 vs. those that return 0.
# ksvalidator /tmp/foo
Error reading /tmp/foo:
[Errno 2] Local file does not exist: /tmp/foo
# echo $?
1
# Y=$(ksvalidator /tmp/foo 2>&1)
# echo $Y
#
# echo abc > /tmp/foo
# ksvalidator /tmp/foo 2>&1
The following problem occurred on line 1 of the kickstart file:
Unknown command: abc
# echo $?
0
If 1.82 solves these, I hope it shows up soon - my Fedora 14 "yum info
pykickstart" still shows 1.77.
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