First, thanks for the tool, I'd been doing individual grabs of config values
before, bleah!
Secondly, bmc-config returns 1 even if it succeeds pulling configuration
details (my sys-details at the bottom.) I suppose it's possible that it
returns non-zero when it gets an "Unable to checkout" on a field, but that
isn't even listed in the non -v output and is a fraction of the output. I hope
this is a bug, or there is an alternate way to get an exit code, or else it
makes running the tool in an automated fashion really sucky (how can you know
what worked?)
Thirdly, a small bug, or at least a consistency issue, with the --filename
output, which ignores the --always-prefix argument (the first command prepends
the host, the 2nd doesn't); the manpage says under --always-prefix that the
tool will "always prefix output" - is this a problem with my system (details
below), the tool, the man page, or my understanding, or some combo of the same?
:)
(Three runs of bmc-config, the first to show a valid exit code, then
the two with --filename and simple file redirect, then a diff to show the lack
of prefix)
# bmc-config --version
bmc-config - 0.7.16
Copyright (C) 2003-2008 FreeIPMI Core Team
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms
of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no
warranty.
[root@blackhol3 zen]# echo $?
0
# bmc-config --checkout --always-prefix > foo1
# echo $?
1
# bmc-config --checkout --always-prefix --filename foo2
# echo $?
1
# diff foo1 foo2
1,476c1,476
< localhost: #
< localhost: # Section UserX Comments
< localhost: #
< localhost: # In the following User sections, users should configure
usernames, passwords,
[...]
System details it was tested on:
# bmc-config -V
bmc-config - 0.7.16
Copyright (C) 2003-2008 FreeIPMI Core Team
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms
of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no
warranty.
# uname -a
Linux blackhol3 3.5.4-3.el6xen.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Sep 29 15:16:26 EST
2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
# bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Happy to answer any q's, etc., and thanks again.
dan
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