[Freeipmi-devel] minor bug/inconsistencies in bmc-config output

[dan farmer]

First, thanks for the tool, I'd been doing individual grabs of config values before, bleah!

Secondly, bmc-config returns 1 even if it succeeds pulling configuration details (my sys-details at the bottom.)  I suppose it's possible that it returns non-zero when it gets an "Unable to checkout" on a field, but that isn't even listed in the non -v output and is a fraction of the output.  I hope this is a bug, or there is an alternate way to get an exit code, or else it makes running the tool in an automated fashion really sucky (how can you know what worked?)

Thirdly, a small bug, or at least a consistency issue, with the --filename output, which ignores the --always-prefix argument (the first command prepends the host, the 2nd doesn't); the manpage says under --always-prefix that the tool will "always prefix output" - is this a problem with my system (details below), the tool, the man page, or my understanding, or some combo of the same? :)

(Three runs of bmc-config, the first to show a valid exit code, then the two with --filename and simple file redirect, then a diff to show the lack of prefix)

        # bmc-config --version

bmc-config - 0.7.16

Copyright (C) 2003-2008 FreeIPMI Core Team

This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of

the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.

address@hidden zen]# echo $?

0

# bmc-config --checkout --always-prefix > foo1

# echo $?

1

        # bmc-config --checkout --always-prefix --filename foo2

# echo $?

1

        # diff foo1 foo2

        1,476c1,476

        < localhost: #

        < localhost: # Section UserX Comments

        < localhost: #

        < localhost: # In the following User sections, users should configure usernames, passwords,

        [...]

System details it was tested on:

       # bmc-config -V

        bmc-config - 0.7.16

        Copyright (C) 2003-2008 FreeIPMI Core Team

        This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of

        the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.

        # uname -a

        Linux blackhol3 3.5.4-3.el6xen.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Sep 29 15:16:26 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

        # cat /etc/redhat-release

        CentOS release 6.3 (Final)

       # bash --version

        GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

        Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

        License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

        This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.

        There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Happy to answer any q's, etc., and thanks again.

dan

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