[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 - characters in remote commands

Tue Apr 29 14:51:35 UTC 2014

Hello,
I either did not properly apply the fix, or the issue is still present when
scheduling scripts from the SSM.
On individual system, it works, through SSM, it fails.

Pierre

2014-04-09 7:33 GMT+02:00 Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
> Fixed it too. Thanks a lot
>
> Piere
> Le 9 avr. 2014 01:09, "BERGMAN Andrew" <Andrew.BERGMAN at svhm.org.au> a
> écrit :
>
> Fixed thank you :)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
>> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Milan Zázrivec
>> Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2014 11:02 PM
>> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 - characters in remote
>> commands
>>
>> On Monday 07 April 2014 08:54:46 Milan Zázrivec wrote:
>> > On Friday 04 April 2014 18:27:02 Pierre Casenove wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > > Should we understand that this regression won't be fixed until v2.2?
>> > > I think that many people execute scripts with redirections... and
>> > > still wants to use the UI. At least I do.
>> >
>> > In truth, at the moment, this bug is not fixed, not even in current
>> > Spacewalk nightly.
>>
>> Actually, today I fixed the problem in Spacewalk nightly in the following
>> commit:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/commit/22904881c43599d73fb4181a0885000cb49f50bc
>>
>> To fix this issue on an installed Spacewalk 2.1, please apply the same
>> change to the following file on your Spacewalk:
>>
>> /var/lib/tomcat[56]/webapps/rhn/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
>>
>> and restart tomcat.
>>
>> Thank you for the report & sorry for the trouble.
>> -Milan Zázrivec
>>
>> > > 2014-04-02 10:16 GMT+02:00 Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com>:
>> > > > On Tuesday 01 April 2014 21:09:31 BERGMAN Andrew wrote:
>> > > > > Milan,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Thanks for confirming this is a bug not a lack of functionality.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I am not sure what I am supposed to do with that link to be
>> > > > > honest
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I am gathering that somewhere there is a call made when it
>> > > > > schedules a command and I need to change that call to be another
>> > > > > kind of call that works in 2.1?
>> > > >
>> > > > Most of the stuff you can do in Spacewalk webui you are also able
>> > > > to achieve with Spacewalk's XML-RPC API (i.e. you don't need your
>> > > > browser, but you're able to write set of scripts which will
>> > > > automate whatever you'd otherwise be doing manually clicking in
>> > > > webui).
>> > > >
>> > > > So just as you're able to schedule a remote command in the webui,
>> > > > you're able to do it with a xml-rpc script. Webui in Spacewalk 2.1
>> > > > won't accept >< signs, but xml-rpc api does (tested).
>> > > >
>> > > > Some example scripts:
>> > > >
>> > > > http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.1/scripts.html
>> > > >
>> > > > And in your particular case, the script you'd want (in python):
>> > > >
>> > > > ...
>> > > > #!/usr/bin/python
>> > > > import xmlrpclib
>> > > >
>> > > > SATELLITE_URL = "http://your.spacewalk.url.com/rpc/api"
>> > > > SATELLITE_LOGIN = "youruser"
>> > > > SATELLITE_PASSWORD = "yourpassword"
>> > > >
>> > > > system_id = 0 # change this to the system id you want to schedule
>> > > > the run for
>> > > > user = "root"     # change this to the user to run the remote
>> command as
>> > > > groupt = "root"  # change this to the group to run the remote
>> > > > command as timeout = 60 # in seconds script = """
>> > > > #!/bin/bash
>> > > >
>> > > > echo "whatever" > /tmp/wherever
>> > > > """
>> > > >
>> > > > client = xmlrpclib.Server(SATELLITE_URL, verbose=0)
>> > > >
>> > > > key = client.auth.login(SATELLITE_LOGIN, SATELLITE_PASSWORD)
>> > > > client.system.schedule_script_run(key,
>> > > >
>> > > >     system_id, \
>> > > >     user, \
>> > > >     group, \
>> > > >     timeout, \
>> > > >     script, \
>> > > >     xmlrpclib.DateTime())
>> > > >
>> > > > client.auth.logout(key)
>> > > > ...
>> > > >
>> > > > Regards
>> > > > -MZ
>> > > >
>> > > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > > > From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> > > > > [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Milan
>> > > > > Zázrivec
>> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2014 7:02 PM
>> > > > > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>> > > > > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 - characters in
>> > > > > remote
>> > > >
>> > > > commands
>> > > >
>> > > > > On Monday 31 March 2014 21:36:10 BERGMAN Andrew wrote:
>> > > > > > Hi ,
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I have done a bit of google searching but not had much luck
>> > > > > > finding an answer so I am posting on here.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > When sending a remote commands I am finding > characters
>> > > > > > getting stripped out and making the command fail.  I haven't
>> > > > > > noticed any others yet but I get the feeling that the >
>> > > > > > character will not be the
>> > > >
>> > > > only
>> > > >
>> > > > > > one.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > You have just discovered a bug in Spacewalk 2.1 webui. This used
>> > > > > to work just fine in Spacewalk 2.0.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > Does anyone know a way of sending such characters using remote
>> > > > > > commands or are we limited to very basic forms of commands?
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Using > or < in the remote commands is all right. Right now
>> > > > > though your
>> > > >
>> > > > only
>> > > >
>> > > > > option is to use XML-RPC API and system.scheduleScriptRun() call:
>> > > > http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.1/handlers/Sys
>> > > > temHan
>> > > > dl
>> > > > er>
>> > > >
>> > > > > .html#scheduleScriptRun
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Regards
>> > > > > -Milan Zázrivec
>> > > > >
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