Re: ReturnsZero(): command does not return zero. Is class created with value of false?

[Hans Deragon]

Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> I'm sorry -- I didn't read this properly first time
> around. the problem is a misunderstanding of the ReturnZero()
> function. It is the value of the shell returncode that is tested
> not the value of the text string printed by the command.
> You will need to use StrCmp("0",$returnvar) if you want to test that.
> Since fgrep will always succeed if /etc/passwd exists, it will always
> return zero in the sense of ReturnZero().

...and again, you still have not read properly (or understand fgrep return 
codes). :)  What I do is check for a user in the /etc/passwd:

[qhander@snah1 qhander] /bin/fgrep -c lmclxadm /etc/passwd
0
[qhander@snah1 qhander] echo $?
1

So the return code is 1.  accountexist is therefore not defined.  !accountexist 
should trigger, but it does not.  Bug.

> I believe it is explained in the manual that classes are attributes
> that are either defined or not. It is certainly implicit in all
> of the docs, but whether or not it is clear is of course a matter
> of opinion! :)
>
> Mark

Mmmm... I would have brought a few changes to the documentation to make it 
clearer.  But, now that I know...


Thanks,
Hans Deragon
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