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

[Milan Zázrivec]

On Friday 04 April 2014 18:27:02 Pierre Casenove wrote:
> 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.

In truth, at the moment, this bug is not fixed, not even in current Spacewalk
nightly.

-MZ

> 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/SystemHandl
> > er> 
> > > .html#scheduleScriptRun
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > -Milan Zázrivec
> > > 
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