On 08/13/2010 09:21 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Package: virt-manager > Version: 0.8.4-7 > Severity: normal > > To set up a tunnel and access remote VNC displays, virt-manager does a: > > ssh -l $USERNAME $HOST 'nc -q 2>&1 | grep -q "requires an argument";if [ > $? -eq 0 ] ; then CMD="nc -q 0 127.0.0.1 5902";else CMD="nc > 127.0.0.1 5902";fi;$CMD;' > > however, this doesn't work if your shell on the remote host is zsh, as > zsh doesn't expand $CMD. Using «eval $CMD» works, or you can do sh -c > "$CMD", but just plain $CMD doesn't work. > > Steps to reproduce should be trivial, but for completeness: > > on a remote host with libvirt running and an existing VM, change the > shell of the user you are logging in with to zsh. Try to connect using > virt-manager. Observe that you get the error message: > > zsh:1: command not found: nc -q 0 127.0.0.1 5902 > > (the port number might be different, of course) >
Upstream already had a fix for zsh, but was still broken with tcsh. I think everything works fine now, I basically just wrapped the whole block in 'sh -c', and AIUI nobody sets sh to anything but bash or dash, which are well tested with this code: http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/virt-manager/rev/16fcbf77e47e Please let me know if that's not sufficient -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
