[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 - characters in remote commands

[Pierre Casenove]

Hello,
Should we understand that this regression won't be fixed until v2.2?
I think that many people execute scripts with redirections... and still
wants to use the UI. At least I do.

Thanks in advance,

Pierre


2014-04-02 10:16 GMT+02:00 Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com>:

> On Tuesday 01 April 2014 21:09:31 BERGMAN Andrew wrote:
> > Milan,
> >
> > Thanks for confirming this is a bug not a lack of functionality.
> >
> > I am not sure what I am supposed to do with that link to be honest
> >
> > I am gathering that somewhere there is a call made when it schedules a
> > command and I need to change that call to be another kind of call that
> > works in 2.1?
>
> Most of the stuff you can do in Spacewalk webui you are also able to
> achieve
> with Spacewalk's XML-RPC API (i.e. you don't need your browser, but you're
> able to write set of scripts which will automate whatever you'd otherwise
> be doing manually clicking in webui).
>
> So just as you're able to schedule a remote command in the webui, you're
> able
> to do it with a xml-rpc script. Webui in Spacewalk 2.1 won't accept ><
> signs,
> but xml-rpc api does (tested).
>
> Some example scripts:
>
> http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.1/scripts.html
>
> And in your particular case, the script you'd want (in python):
>
> ...
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import xmlrpclib
>
> SATELLITE_URL = "http://your.spacewalk.url.com/rpc/api"
> SATELLITE_LOGIN = "youruser"
> SATELLITE_PASSWORD = "yourpassword"
>
> system_id = 0 # change this to the system id you want to schedule the run
> for
> user = "root"     # change this to the user to run the remote command as
> groupt = "root"  # change this to the group to run the remote command as
> timeout = 60 # in seconds
> script = """
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo "whatever" > /tmp/wherever
> """
>
> client = xmlrpclib.Server(SATELLITE_URL, verbose=0)
>
> key = client.auth.login(SATELLITE_LOGIN, SATELLITE_PASSWORD)
> client.system.schedule_script_run(key,
>     system_id, \
>     user, \
>     group, \
>     timeout, \
>     script, \
>     xmlrpclib.DateTime())
> client.auth.logout(key)
> ...
>
> Regards
> -MZ
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Milan Zázrivec
> > Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2014 7:02 PM
> > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 - characters in remote
> commands
> >
> > On Monday 31 March 2014 21:36:10 BERGMAN Andrew wrote:
> > > Hi ,
> > >
> > > I have done a bit of google searching but not had much luck finding an
> > > answer so I am posting on here.
> > >
> > > When sending a remote commands I am finding > characters getting
> > > stripped out and making the command fail.  I haven't noticed any
> > > others yet but I get the feeling that the > character will not be the
> only
> > > one.
> > You have just discovered a bug in Spacewalk 2.1 webui. This used to work
> > just fine in Spacewalk 2.0.
> > > Does anyone know a way of sending such characters using remote
> > > commands or are we limited to very basic forms of commands?
> >
> > Using > or < in the remote commands is all right. Right now though your
> only
> > option is to use XML-RPC API and system.scheduleScriptRun() call:
> >
> >
> http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.1/handlers/SystemHandler
> > .html#scheduleScriptRun
> >
> > Regards
> > -Milan Zázrivec
> >
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