Best way to trigger system commands

[sbagaria]

I want to trigger a system command on the master node at the end of a workunit. I remember seeing a function which will call a particular command on a node but I can not recollect where I saw it. Anyone remembers?

[JimD]

The ECL action to trigger an event is NOTIFY. This will trigger the event that a scheduled workunit can be set to wait for. .

You can find more details in the ECL Scheduler guide:

http://hpccsystems.com/download/docs/ecl-scheduler


The example on page 12 of this guide shows a good example.

To run a system command, use the standard library function: CmdProcess

For example:

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STD.System.Util.CmdProcess('echo','George Jetson');

HTH,

Jim

[sbagaria]

Thanks. Unfortunately, the CmdProcess function is not working for me. The workunits do not terminate. The last line in the eclagent log says 'Obtained run lock'. Both for hthor and thor. Roxie also does not terminate but I don't have a log entry for roxie.

Pipe on the other hand works fine but it executes on the slave nodes whereas I want the command to be executed on the master node only.

[bforeman]

There is no active issue (bug) reported for CmdProcess currently, if you are unable to use it you probably need to open an issue in the Community Issue Tracker, and include a code sample if it is reproducable.

Are you getting this lock on the simple echo command that Jim posted, or are you trying to run something else?

Thanks,

Bob

[sbagaria]

It's the same command as Jim posted. I tried it on 4.0.0rc5 running on Ubuntu and 3.10.4-1 running on CentOS. I will log a Jira item.

[sbagaria]

Diagnosed the problem. Use the absolute path for the command. Also, the example you provided will not return anything as at least in Linux, echo repeats its arguments and not the standard input. cat was built to repeat standard input. So the correct example would be Std.System.Utils.CmdProcess('cat','George Jetson');

See issues
https://track.hpccsystems.com/browse/HPCC-9226
https://track.hpccsystems.com/browse/HPCC-9227

[sbagaria]

As noted in the above Jira items, this is now resolved for 3.10.8.

[bforeman]

Thanks for the feedback, regarding the absolute path issue, ww will review the documentation and update as needed. Again, thanks very much!

Bob

[sbagaria]

Noticed this was a cross-post: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=581

Also, the absolute path will only be needed for versions prior to 3.10.8. 3.10.8 and onwards will be able to search the standard path variable. If you are updating the doc, then please change the example to refer 'cat' instead of 'echo'.

Thanks