[Spacewalk-list] RHN macro to get short hostname

[Pierre Casenove]

Thanks for the idea.
As I don't like spreading scripts on clients with login/password, I'll try
to do the same from the server (searching for systems without the custom
key set, and setting it if empty)

Thanks


2012/12/19 Jason M. Nielsen <jnielsen at myriad.com>

> Submit a custom system info variable back to the host profile and use that
> in the config file.  I have a bash script that runs during a build that
> generates the values for variables then submits them back with a python
> script.
>
> ie:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> /root/bin/submit_custom_**system_info.py hostname_short `hostname -s`
> ...
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import xmlrpclib
> import getpass
> import sys
> from socket import gethostname
>
> SATELLITE_URL = "https://spacewalk.myriad.com/**rpc/api<https://spacewalk.myriad.com/rpc/api>
> "
> SATELLITE_LOGIN = "submitvar"
> SATELLITE_PASSWORD = "SubV at R1t"
> client = xmlrpclib.Server(SATELLITE_**URL, verbose=0)
> key = client.auth.login(SATELLITE_**LOGIN, SATELLITE_PASSWORD)
>
> fin = open('/etc/sysconfig/rhn/**systemid')
> file = list()
> for line in fin:
>   file.append(line)
>
> system_id = int(file[file.index('<name>**system_id</name>\n')+1][18:28]**)
>
> field_name = sys.argv[1]
> field_value = sys.argv[2]
> print "%s: %s: %s\n" % (system_id,field_name,field_**value)
> client.system.setCustomValues(**key,system_id,{field_name: field_value})
>
> client.auth.logout(key)
>
>
> On 12/19/2012 12:38 AM, Pierre Casenove wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I can't as I want to use the macro in some configuration files, where you
>> can't put scripts in them
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>>
>> 2012/12/19 Jørgen Hysvær Langgåt <jorgenhl at gmail.com>
>>
>>  On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello list,
>>>> The RHN predefined macro rhn.system.hostname allows you to get the FQDN
>>>> of a client.
>>>> In order to manage the /etc/hosts file on some hosts, I would like to
>>>> get
>>>> the FQDN and the short name.
>>>> How could I perform this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  How about "cut -d. -f 1" from the FQDN?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jørgen
>>>
>>>
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