[Fab-user] Running fabric on VMware ESXi

[Carlos García]

Hi list,

I was trying to execute some commands on an ESX server, but I'm having some problems.

ESX has a custom Linux, it lacks of sudo, bash among many other things.

Anyway, I just want to run a simple ls so the code I'm trying to run is:

@task

def esx_cmd( command ):

  env.shell = '/bin/sh'

  return run(command)

>fab esx_cmd:"ls" -H host

And the output:

[host] Executing task 'run_cmd'

[host] run: ls

[host] Login password for 'user':

[host] out: /bin/sh: can't open 'ls'

[host] out:

Fatal error: run() received nonzero return code 2 while executing!

Requested: ls

Executed: /bin/sh "ls"

Aborting.

Disconnecting from host... done.

If I run the same command in an interactive SSH session on that host:

The ESXi Shell can be disabled by an administrative user. See the

vSphere Security documentation for more information.

~ # env

SSH_CLIENT=X.X.X.X 50909 22

MAIL=/var/mail/user

USER=user

TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo

HOME=/

SSH_TTY=/dev/char/pty/t0

VI_USERNAME=user

LOGNAME=user

TERM=xterm

PATH=/bin:/sbin

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

SHELL=/bin/sh

PWD=/

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

SSH_CONNECTION=X.X.X.X 50909 X.X.X.X 22

TMOUT=0

~ # ls

VIB              bootbank         etc              local.tgz        opt              sbin             tardisks         usr              vmimages

altbootbank      bootpart.gz      lib              locker           proc             scratch          tardisks.noauto  var              vmupgrade

bin              dev              lib64            mbr              productLocker    store            tmp              vmfs

~ #

What I'm doing wrong??

Thanks in advance