[Linux-cluster] iSCSI fence agent

Florian G. Pflug fgp at phlo.org
Mon May 1 20:30:45 UTC 2006


Matthew B. Brookover wrote:
> I have not used this tool in a while, but it did work on my system.
> 
> I would not trust this version to fence properly.  Using system does not
> allow the exit status of iptables to be checked for errors.  System only
> reports the status of the ssh command, not the command that is called on
> the remote host.
I believe ssh 'forwards' that exit-code of the remote-command - at
least the version that comes with debian/sarge does.

 > ssh fgp at dev '/bin/false'; echo $?
gives:
1

 > ssh fgp at dev '/bin/true'; echo $?
gives:
0

At least on my machine..

greetings, Florian Pflug




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