[qmtest] os.system0 use in resource SetUp methods

[Mark Mitchell]

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 13:54, Steve Byan wrote:
> I've written a couple of test extension classes modeled on 
> ShellCommandTest and ShellScriptTest which use a remote shell to 
> execute the tests on a remote host specified by a "node" resource 
> extension class, which selects one host from those provided in the 
> context by a target extension class.
> 
> I'd like to check the state of the selected host in the resource SetUp 
> method. I've tried using code like this:
> 
>          # test that pServer is up and running
>          if os.system("ping -c 3 " + remote_host + " >/dev/null") != 0:
>              cause = "Can't ping " + blade + " at hostname " + 
> remote_host
>              result.Fail(cause=cause)
>              return

Does this problem happen with the CVS version of QMTest or only with
QMTest 2.0.3?  In 2.0.3, there were some bugs involving test/resource
dependencies that might have caused problems here.

I can't think of any reason that the GUI should present particular
problems here; we'll have to have more information to figure out what's
going wrong.

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Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery.com>
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