formatting issue or bug? re: dialog in fai

[Shadow Roldan]

Formatting issue confirmed. I was missing 

1>/dev/console

Thanks anyway!

On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Shadow Roldan wrote:

> This is on Lucid Ubuntu 10.04
> Running: FAI 3.4.2ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa1
> 
> 
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Shadow Roldan wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> Have used FAI for many moons, am now trying to extend functionality to even more automation. Yay for automation.
>> 
>> Basing my work on previous discussions:
>> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2005-September/003593.html
>> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2006-February/003892.html
>> 
>> I have been attempting to insert dialog's into my fai process to handle hostname, ip and class assignment
>> 
>> I have a need for checklist driven output for defining classes and have written:
>> 
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> #! /bin/sh
>> tmp=/tmp/base
>> tmphostname=/tmp/hname
>> ip=/tmp/ip
>> dialog --title "FAI" --nocancel --checklist "Choose the type of installation:" 20 60 7 \
>> base "Base Install" off \
>> GRUB "Configures GRUB" off \
>> apt "adds iWin custom apt repo" off \
>> console "Redirects standard output to console" off \
>> lb "Sets up 2nd NIC for Load Balancer" off \
>> db-diskconfig "iWin Base DB Disk Config" off \
>> chef "deploys chef client and registers" off \
>> tomcat "Installs Base Tomcat" off 2>$tmp
>> # clear
>>   # define the new class
>> catnc `cat $tmp`
>>  rm -f $tmp
>>  dialog --title "FAI Hostname Input" --inputbox "Input desired hostname:" 10 30 2>$tmphostname 1>/dev/console
>>  clear
>>  hostname -F $tmphostname
>>  dialog --title "FAI IP Input" --inputbox "Input desired IP Address:" 10 30 2>$ip 1>/dev/console
>>  clear
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> The above, when broken into it's smaller parts and run from the shell works just fine. However, when FAI encounters the --checklist it appears to skip right over it. It almost appear as if something is sending a carriage return and pushing past to the next menu.  Hard to determine.
>> 
>> My question is:
>> Has anyone gotten dialog --checklist working inside FAI? If so, would you mind sending me your config so  I can try to see if it is simply a formatting issue? If not... Can someone confirm they can get it working as I have a sneaking suspicion I'm running into a bug
>> 
>> Thanks very much FAI community
>> 
>> Shadow Roldan
>> 
>> 
>> 
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