Re: [xcat-user] Postscript output not being logged to /var/log/xcat/xcat.log ?

[Er Tao Zhao]

Hi, David

 

Will you pls try "chdef -t site xcatdebugmode=1" and then run nodeset again to get more detailed logs?

 

Thx!

Best Regards,
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----- Original message -----
From: David Rajendra <drajen...@lenovo.com>
To: "xCAT Users Mailing list (xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net)" <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc:
Subject: [xcat-user] Postscript output not being logged to /var/log/xcat/xcat.log ?
Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2017 8:30 PM
 

Hello xCAT users,

 

I am using this version of xCAT:

 

# lsxcatd -v

Version 2.13.2.POST111.gbdd8e64 (git commit 06d7097f42eca03db70c9eb93b8abeaf8ca1c2be, built Thu Jun  8 14:21:16 UTC 2017)

 

I noticed since I upgraded to 2.13.2 that xCAT is no longer writing output from my postscripts to /var/log/xcat/xcat.log on the node but only the start/end of  each postscript.

 

Example:

[edited]

running /xcatpost/mypostscript.post

Fri Jun 30 18:05:12 CEST 2017 Running postbootscript: otherpkgs

Fri Jun 30 18:07:39 CEST 2017 postbootscript otherpkgs return with 16

Fri Jun 30 18:07:40 CEST 2017 Running postbootscript: postscriptA

Fri Jun 30 18:10:58 CEST 2017 postbootscript postscriptA return with 0

Fri Jun 30 18:10:58 CEST 2017 Running postbootscript: postscriptB

Fri Jun 30 18:10:58 CEST 2017 postbootscript postscriptB return with 0

Fri Jun 30 18:27:30 CEST 2017 Running postbootscript: reboot

Fri Jun 30 18:27:30 CEST 2017 postbootscript reboot return with 0

/xcatpost/mypostscript.post return

 

 

On xCAT 2.12.2 this was giving more useful output.

 

Why has the code been changed ?

I found it much quicker to debug having my postscript output written to the local node /var/log/xcat/xcat.log rather than it being sent by to syslog.

 

One of my colleagues noted that a code a change had been made “Fix double logging of postscript output in /var/log/xcat/xcat.log” in 2.13.2.

 

If this is such a problem could we not have a setting to turn this on or off instead ?

I would prefer that the change be reverted.

 

Regards,

 

David

 

 

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