cobbler check: BIND detection not working

[Cristian Ciupitu]

cobbler check doesn't properly detect that BIND is available on Fedora
11. It runs "named --help" and it searches in its stdout for "unknown
option". On Fedora 11, this is printed on stderr, not on stdout.

What I would like to propose is to run "named -v" which prints to stdout
something like "BIND 9.6.1-P1-RedHat-9.6.1-6.P1.fc11". I think that
it's saner to use an option that's actually supported, than one that
is not. Unfortunately I don't have access to a RHEL system, so I don't
know if this idea would work on RHEL, too. I'm waiting for your feedback
and opinions regarding this.

Thank you,
Cristian

[Mann, Owen]

"named -v" on my RHEL5.2 box gives:
BIND 9.3.4-P1

On an updated RHEL3.8 box, it gives:
BIND 9.2.4


So it looks supported.



Owen Mann, Interactive Data Real Time Services
60 Codman Hill Rd, Boxborough, MA 01719
978-795-3758 owen.mann(a)interactivedata.com



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cobbler check doesn't properly detect that BIND is available on Fedora
11. It runs "named --help" and it searches in its stdout for "unknown
option". On Fedora 11, this is printed on stderr, not on stdout.

What I would like to propose is to run "named -v" which prints to stdout
something like "BIND 9.6.1-P1-RedHat-9.6.1-6.P1.fc11". I think that
it's saner to use an option that's actually supported, than one that
is not. Unfortunately I don't have access to a RHEL system, so I don't
know if this idea would work on RHEL, too. I'm waiting for your feedback
and opinions regarding this.

Thank you,
Cristian



 
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[Cristian Ciupitu]

>  From: Cristian Ciupitu <cristian.ciupitu(a)yahoo.com&gt;
>  cobbler check doesn't properly detect that BIND is available on Fedora
>  11. It runs "named --help" and it searches in its stdout for "unknown
>  option". On Fedora 11, this is printed on stderr, not on stdout. 
I've
submitted bug https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/527
 
>  What I would like to propose is to run "named -v" which
> prints to stdout
>  something like "BIND 9.6.1-P1-RedHat-9.6.1-6.P1.fc11". I think that
>  it's saner to use an option that's actually supported, than one that
>  is not. Unfortunately I don't have access to a RHEL system, so I don't
>  know if this idea would work on RHEL, too. I'm waiting for your feedback
>  and opinions regarding this. 
Thanks to Owen Mann and his feedback about BIND on
RHEL, I was
confident enough to write a patch which is available at
git://github.com/ciupicri/cobbler.git branch master-bugfix527.

Regards,
Cristian

[Devan Goodwin]

Patch looks perfectly safe, applied, as is the spelling one you
mentioned on IRC today.

Thanks,

Devan

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