Re: 2.1.17 having issue with ExecResult() using pipelines

[Brendan Strejcek]

nathan r. hruby wrote:

> 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.

It might be interesting to trace the cfagent, so see exactly what it is
doing. You don't really know what snapshot you are getting when you just
run ps at a particular point in time.

Linux: strace -f cfagent -q 

Solaris: truss -f cfagent -q # truss output goes to stderr

BSD (and OS X): ktrace -di cfagent -q; ktrace -C; kdump | less; rm ktrace.out

Stick an "env -i" before the cfagent if you don't want your current
environment to influence its behavior.

Also, have you tried cfagent with -d set to various levels?

Best,
Brendan

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