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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freeipmi-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
