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Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmipower fails if redirecting stdin to /dev/null


From: Peter Kruse
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmipower fails if redirecting stdin to /dev/null
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:24:13 +0200
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Hi Al,

yes, that works!

thanks a lot.

  Peter

On 09/13/2011 11:57 PM, Albert Chu wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I got this beta that should solve your problem.
> 
> http://download.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-1.0.7.beta0.tar.gz
> 
> can you let me know if it works for you?
> 
> Al
> 
> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 11:31 -0700, Albert Chu wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 03:13 -0700, Peter Kruse wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm using ipmipower to suspend and resume compute nodes in our clusters.
>>> But it seems that the batch scheduler calls the command with
>>> stdin redirected to /dev/null, which makes ipmipower exit
>>> with a status of 1, and not suspending the node, instead
>>> it logs a message:
>>>
>>> ipmipower[28320]: Cbuf_write_from_fd(0): Bad file descriptor
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if it is really is necessary for ipmipower
>>> to read from stdin.
>>
>> Ipmipower can be run in an interactive or non-interactive mode.  It
>> currently checks for data from stdin no matter what, but I suppose it
>> wouldn't be a big deal to eliminate that stdin when we know the user
>> won't be interacting w/ the ipmipower prompt at all.
>>
>> Let me try and get a beta out for you to try later today.
>>
>> Al
>>
>>> As a workaround I call ipmipower in a screen(1) session.
>>> You can reproduce this behaviour from the command line
>>> if you run for example:
>>>
>>> ipmipower  -h [address] -u [user] -p [pass] -n < /dev/null
>>>
>>> I tested it under ubuntu/lucid and debian/squeeze
>>> both with the shipped version 0.7.15 but
>>> also with the latest version 1.0.6.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>   Peter
>>>
>>> ps: I am not subscribed to this list, it would be
>>>     kind if you could CC me on replies.
>>>
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