Have you tried running all of that under strace / truss and see what gets executed?
-Jason Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: nathan r. hruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 9:22 AM > To: Martin, Jason H > Cc: Brendan Strejcek; Mark Burgess; help-cfengine@gnu.org > Subject: RE: 2.1.17 having issue with ExecResult() using pipelines > > > On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Martin, Jason H wrote: > > > If yada isn't in the normal path then that might be a > problem; I don't > > know what PATH will be set to when that happens. Good point. > > > > Err.. right: here's the full real command: > CurrentLoad = ( ExecResult(/bin/sh -c "/bin/cat > /proc/loadavg | /bin/awk '{print $1}' | tr -d '\n'") ) > > What I'm seeing in 2.1.17 is that everything after "/bin/cat" > simply dissapears and thus no pipeline. eg, run a ps -ef > while this is runnning and the awk and tr are not being > executed. The above works in 2.1.14. > > I also have several ExecResult() calls that use find and they > too exhibit the same behavior: > MailQueueCount = ( ExecResult(/bin/sh -c > "/usr/bin/find /var/spool/mqueue -type f -name 'q*' | wc -l | > tr -d ' ' | tr -d '\n' ") ) > returns a find for $CWD, not /var/spool/mqueue, and certianly > not the output of "wc -l" > > Thanks, > > -n > > > -Jason Martin > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Brendan Strejcek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:47 AM > >> To: Martin, Jason H > >> Cc: Mark Burgess; help-cfengine@gnu.org > >> Subject: Re: 2.1.17 having issue with ExecResult() using pipelines > >> > >> > >> Martin, Jason H wrote: > >> > >>> CFE only checks that the first command in ExecResult is > >> fully pathed. > >> > >> Yeah, but what if the environment passed to the shell does not > >> contain a PATH? Maybe the *shell* can't find the program. Just a > >> thought... > >> > >> Best, > >> Brendan > >> > >> -- > >> Senior System Administrator > >> The University of Chicago > >> Department of Computer Science > >> http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/people/brendan > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Help-cfengine mailing list > > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------- > nathan hruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > uga enterprise information technology services > production systems support > ------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
