On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:47:43AM +0200, Daniel Kertby wrote:
> 
> We are running Cobbler version 2.0.11 and tries to reuse autoyast XML files
> for SLES installations.
> If we have a embedded [CDATA[ script containing variable assignments like,
>     variablename=$(ls)
>     variablename2=$((othervariable + 1))
> , the web server throws an ERROR 500.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 SERVER ERROR
> 2011-05-30 10:44:05 ERROR 500: SERVER ERROR.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Is this a known bug? Any workaround without hacking the embedded script?

Sounds like the default behaviour.
Try to use #raw around these variables that are not intended for cobbler
to be interpreted but by the shell later.
Alternatively try escaping like \$(ls).


Christian
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