[Novalug] Installing rpms via an automated script

[James Swanson]

I got it working now.  Yes, sudo needs a tty in RHEL.  I disabled it for
one user.  I used exec &>/tmp/my.log  which told me that even though I was
using a login script for the shell script, sudo wanted a tty.  Thanks for
the help, Dan and John!


Jim


On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Dan Lavu <dan at lavu.net> wrote:

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> I had my syntax wrong, try ****
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> script.sh 2>&1 > your.log****
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> http://jstorimer.com/2011/12/29/the-difference-between-stdout-and-stderr.html
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> Dan****
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> *From:* novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org [mailto:
> novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org] *On Behalf Of *James Swanson
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:50 PM
> *To:* John Holland
> *Cc:* novalug at calypso.tux.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Novalug] Installing rpms via an automated script****
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> I can't autologin as root so that's out.  If I run the script as the user,
> it runs fine.  It runs everything else in the script except the rpm
> commands and the yum commands (I tried both).  I added a line below
> #!/bin/bash ****
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> $mcaffee.sh>$output.txt 2>&1****
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> but nothing is showing up in the output.txt file.  ****
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> Jim****
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> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:13 PM, John Holland <jbholland at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think $script is supposed to be replaced by the name of your script,
> $log.file with some file to log output to, and then 2>&1 with the greater
> than sign important - there shouldn't be single quotes- whatever is going
> on will be in what you put for $log.file
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> you might also try running it as
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> $ bash -x $script >$logfile 2>&1
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> That may produce some explanatory output. ****
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> On 3/11/12 8:07 PM, James Swanson wrote:****
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> > Okay, dumb question. I put '$script>$log.file 2&1' with and without the
> single quote, but I'm not getting anything. Am I supposed to put that in
> the script or somewhere else? Sorry for the questions, I haven't written a
> shell script in ages and this got dumped on me.
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> > Jim
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> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Dan Lavu <dan at lavu.net
> <mailto:dan at lavu.net> <dan at lavu.net>> wrote:
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> > James,
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> > I’m pretty sure I know what the issue is, sudo by default requires a tty
> session, you can edit your sudoers file and disable require notty, that
> should fix it. If that doesn’t work, you can run your script and put the
> following at the ‘$script > $log.file 2&<1’ and it will redirect all the
> default output to a text file so you can find out what is holding you up.
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> > Dan
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> *On Behalf Of *James Swanson
> > *Sent:* Sunday, March 11, 2012 3:35 PM
> > *To:* NOVALUG
> > *Subject:* [Novalug] Installing rpms via an automated script ****
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> > This has me tearing my hair out. I've built an automated script. I have
> the user set up to sudo with no password. The script works fine until I get
> to the rpm installs. I've put "sudo rpm -ivh /path/to/X.rpm" and I've put
> "sudo yum -y install /path/to/X.rpm" with not success. When I'm logged in
> as the user, I can run the script just fine, but automated? Nope. Yes, I've
> set up environment variables. Am I missing something?
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> > Jim
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