On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > On 30Dec2015 21:14, Carlos Barera <carlos.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Trying to run a specific command (ibstat) installed in /usr/sbin on an >> Ubuntu 15.04 machine, using subprocess.check_output and getting "/bin/sh: >> /usr/sbin/ibstat: No such file or directory" >> >> I tried the following: >> - running the command providing full path >> - running with executable=bash >> - running with (['/bin/bash', '-c' , "/usr/sbin/ibstat"]) >> >> Nothing worked ... > > > The first check is to run the command from a shell. Does it work? Does > "which ibstat" confirm that the command exist at that path? Is it even > installed?
And do those checks as the same user as your script runs as, with the same environment and all. You might find that a file is executable for one user but not for another, or something. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
