Re: ksvalidator - can't detect errors?

Matt Rose <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, whitivery wrote:
>
>> Sometimes ksvalidator will complain but not return an error, for
>> instance:
>>
>>   # ksvalidator -v RHEL5 /tmp/tmp.57yMAuel5v
>>   The following problem occurred on line 2 of the kickstart file:
>>   Unknown command: somesetting1
>>   # echo $?
>>   0
>>
>> I want to be able to detect such problems.  But when I try to
>> redirect or pipe the output of ksvalidator, it produces no
>> output.
>>
>> How can I detect such problems within a shell script?
>>
>> Fedora 14, pykickstart-1.77-2.
>
>Just another note that both problems mentioned above have been fixed in 
>pykickstart 1.82-1
>
>$ cat /etc/fedora-release ; rpm -q pykickstart ; ksvalidator /tmp/foo ; 
>echo $?
>Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
>pykickstart-1.82-1.fc15.noarch
>The following problem occurred on line 188 of the kickstart file:
>
>Section does not end with %%end.
>
>1

Thanks for the response.

Just to be clear, the kinds of errors I want to detect are those that
don't currently return 1.  Here's an example showing both the inability to
capture output, and errors that return 1 vs. those that return 0.

# ksvalidator /tmp/foo
Error reading /tmp/foo:
[Errno 2] Local file does not exist: /tmp/foo
# echo $?
1
# Y=$(ksvalidator /tmp/foo 2>&1)
# echo $Y

#
# echo abc > /tmp/foo
# ksvalidator /tmp/foo 2>&1
The following problem occurred on line 1 of the kickstart file:
Unknown command: abc
# echo $?
0

If 1.82 solves these, I hope it shows up soon - my Fedora 14 "yum info
pykickstart" still shows 1.77.