Cobbler + SLES + CDATA script fails

[Daniel Kertby]

Hi all,

We are running Cobbler version 2.0.11 and tries to reuse autoyast XML files
for SLES installations.
If we have a embedded [CDATA[ script containing variable assignments like,
    variablename=$(ls)
    variablename2=$((othervariable + 1))
, the web server throws an ERROR 500.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 SERVER ERROR
2011-05-30 10:44:05 ERROR 500: SERVER ERROR.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Is this a known bug? Any workaround without hacking the embedded script?

Regards,
Daniel

[Christian Horn]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:47:43AM +0200, Daniel Kertby wrote:
> We are running Cobbler version 2.0.11 and tries to reuse autoyast XML files
> for SLES installations.
> If we have a embedded [CDATA[ script containing variable assignments like,
>     variablename=$(ls)
>     variablename2=$((othervariable + 1))
> , the web server throws an ERROR 500.
>
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 SERVER ERROR
> 2011-05-30 10:44:05 ERROR 500: SERVER ERROR.
>
> Is this a known bug? Any workaround without hacking the embedded script?

Sounds like the default behaviour.
Try to use #raw around these variables that are not intended for cobbler
to be interpreted but by the shell later.
Alternatively try escaping like $(ls).

Christian

[Daniel Kertby]

Thanks Christian for your support.

/Daniel

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Christian Horn  wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:47:43AM +0200, Daniel Kertby wrote:
> > We are running Cobbler version 2.0.11 and tries to reuse autoyast XML
>
> files
> > for SLES installations.
> > If we have a embedded [CDATA[ script containing variable assignments
>
> like,
> > variablename=$(ls)
> > variablename2=$((othervariable + 1))
> >
> > , the web server throws an ERROR 500.
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 SERVER ERROR
> > 2011-05-30 10:44:05 ERROR 500: SERVER ERROR.
> > Is this a known bug? Any workaround without hacking the embedded script?
>
> Sounds like the default behaviour.
> Try to use #raw around these variables that are not intended for cobbler
> to be interpreted but by the shell later.
> Alternatively try escaping like $(ls).
>
> Christian
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