RE: 2.1.17 having issue with ExecResult() using pipelines

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Martin, Jason H wrote:

> If yada isn't in the normal path then that might be a problem; I don't
> know what PATH will be set to when that happens. Good point.

Err.. right: here's the full real command:
        CurrentLoad = ( ExecResult(/bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /proc/loadavg | /bin/awk 
'{print $1}' | tr -d '\n'") )

What I'm seeing in 2.1.17 is that everything after "/bin/cat" simply
dissapears and thus no pipeline.  eg, run a ps -ef while this is runnning
and the awk and tr are not being executed.  The above works in 2.1.14.

I also have several ExecResult() calls that use find and they too exhibit
the same behavior:
        MailQueueCount       = ( ExecResult(/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/find 
/var/spool/mqueue -type f -name 'q*' | wc -l | tr -d ' ' | tr -d '\n' ") )
returns a find for $CWD, not /var/spool/mqueue, and certianly not the
output of "wc -l"

Thanks,

-n

> -Jason Martin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brendan Strejcek [mailto:brendan@cs.uchicago.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:47 AM
> > To: Martin, Jason H
> > Cc: Mark Burgess; help-cfengine@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: 2.1.17 having issue with ExecResult() using pipelines
> >
> >
> > Martin, Jason H wrote:
> >
> > > CFE only checks that the first command in ExecResult is
> > fully pathed.
> >
> > Yeah, but what if the environment passed to the shell does
> > not contain a PATH? Maybe the *shell* can't find the program.
> > Just a thought...
> >
> > Best,
> > Brendan
> >
> > --
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> > The University of Chicago
> > Department of Computer Science
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