Great. It'll be in the next release of FreeIPMI. Al
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 01:24 -0700, Peter Kruse wrote: > Hi Al, > > yes, that works! > > thanks a lot. > > Peter > > On 09/13/2011 11:57 PM, Albert Chu wrote: > > 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
