Re: [Fab-user] Sudo fails on Solaris hosts

[Brandon Whaley]

Hi Jacqueline,

If I'm not mistaken, the path is set on the system rather than in
Fabric.  On my Ubuntu box, it appears to be defined in
/etc/login.defs, but not on my CentOS boxen, so if you can't find it,
you may need to resort to the symlink trick or just use full paths.
Sorry!

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Jacqueline Atkins
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Brandon;
>
> Thank you so much for the reply!  I am new to Fabric and really trying
> to get a solid grasp about the way it works.  I so appreciate your
> taking the time to assist me.
>
> I did find a solution, and you are correct about the pathing.
> However, I am a bit confused apparently about the way that Fabric
> works and if you could shed some light, I would be very grateful.
>
> I work in a heterogeneous environment which includes RHEL, Solaris,
> FreeBSD, and AIX.  I am attempting to write code that is executable on
> all platforms without additional overhead so, I am always trying to
> avoid hard-coding paths if at all possible.  What I realized is that
> on Solaris, both sudo and facter are installed in /usr/local/bin
> instead of /usr/bin.  So, I created links on the target machines and
> this corrected the issue.
>
> However, I am confused about the default path that fabric is using, in
> this case it appears to be /usr/local/bin?  is this correct?  I am not
> sure where/how this is set.
>
> Again, thank you, thank you!  I really appreciate your feedback!
>
> Have a great evening!
> Jackie
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Brandon Whaley <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello Jacqueline,
>>
>> The return code of 127 you're getting means that the command was not
>> found.  I suspect the path to this command is being included in your
>> path by the shell environment, so when you use "shell=False" you're
>> excluding that from your path.  Try using the full path to that
>> executable (use `which facter` to find it) and your should not have
>> further issues.
>>
>> --Brandon
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Jacqueline Atkins
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Actually, I was not clear when describing the issue.  The problem is
>>> not sudo but rather with the shell.
>>>
>>> When I use the following, shell= True, this works as expected on Solaris.
>>> run('facter|grep serial', shell=True)
>>>
>>> However, I work in a heterogeneous environment that includes AIX and
>>> if I do not set shell=False, the output from AIX contains control
>>> characters, etc.
>>>
>>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Jacqueline Atkins
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Hi Everyone;
>>>>
>>>> I have run into a peculiar issue that  is stumping me.
>>>>
>>>> When using sudo to execute a command on Solaris hosts, I get the
>>>> following error:
>>>>
>>>> [blvm-client3] out: bash: sudo: command not found
>>>> Warning: sudo() encountered an error (return code 127) while executing
>>>> 'facter serialnumber'
>>>>
>>>> Here is the code in my fabfile:
>>>>  sudo('facter serialnumber', shell=False)
>>>>
>>>> However, the command is executable locally.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jacqueline G. Atkins
>>>>
>>>> "To whom much is given, much will be required..."  Luke 12:48
>>>>
>>>> "“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,
>>>> revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” Audrey
>>>> Hepburn
>>>>
>>>> "....I am not going to be unnecessarily buoyed or depressed by someone
>>>> else's experience.  I have my own fight to fight" ..... Elizabeth
>>>> Edwards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jacqueline G. Atkins
>>>
>>> "To whom much is given, much will be required..."  Luke 12:48
>>>
>>> "“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,
>>> revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” Audrey
>>> Hepburn
>>>
>>> "....I am not going to be unnecessarily buoyed or depressed by someone
>>> else's experience.  I have my own fight to fight" ..... Elizabeth
>>> Edwards
>>>
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>
>
> --
> Jacqueline G. Atkins
>
> "To whom much is given, much will be required..."  Luke 12:48
>
> "“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,
> revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” Audrey
> Hepburn
>
> "....I am not going to be unnecessarily buoyed or depressed by someone
> else's experience.  I have my own fight to fight" ..... Elizabeth
> Edwards