Turns out it wasn't running against the server I thought it was. Apologies for the spam.
-carlos On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:02 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > On 30Dec2015 21:14, Carlos Barera <carlos.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Trying to run a specific command (ibstat) installed in /usr/sbin on an > >Ubuntu 15.04 machine, using subprocess.check_output and getting "/bin/sh: > >/usr/sbin/ibstat: No such file or directory" > > > >I tried the following: > >- running the command providing full path > >- running with executable=bash > >- running with (['/bin/bash', '-c' , "/usr/sbin/ibstat"]) > > > >Nothing worked ... > > The first check is to run the command from a shell. Does it work? Does > "which > ibstat" confirm that the command exist at that path? Is it even installed? > > If it does, you should be able to run it directly without using a shell: > > subprocess.call(['/usr/sbin/ibstat'], ...) > > or just plain ['ibstat']. Also remember that using "sh -c blah" or "bash -c > blah" is subject to all the same security issues that subprocess' > "shell=True" > parameter is, and that it should be avoided without special reason. > > Finally, remember to drop the common Linux fetish with "bash". Just use > "sh"; > on many systems it _is_ bash, but it will provide portable use. The bash is > just a partiular Bourne style shell, not installed everywhere, and rarely > of > any special benefit for scripts over the system /bin/sh (which _every_ UNIX > system has). > > If none of this solves your problem, please reply including the failing > code > and a transcript of the failure output. > > Thanks, > Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
