#4735 [fvt]2.10:could not get postscript section of the installer logs

[junxiaw]

1.download the latest build
2.set xcatdebugmode=1
3.nodeset computenode osimage=rhels7-ppc64-netboot-compute
4.rnetboot computenode
on computenode:
cat /var/log/xcat/xcat.log
xcatdsklspost: updating VPD database
running /opt/xcat/xcatdsklspost
xcatdsklspost : trying to download postscripts from http://10.2.1.13/install/pos
tscripts/
/opt/xcat/xcatdsklspost : download_postscripts return successfully
xcatdsklspost: downloaded postscripts successfully
/opt/xcat/xcatdsklspost : trying to download http://10.2.1.13/tftpboot/mypostsc
ripts/mypostscript.c910f02c02p27
/opt/xcat/xcatdsklspost : download_mypostscript failed
xcatdsklspost: failed to download mypostscript.<nodename>, trying to call getpos
tscript.awk...
running //xcatpost/mypostscript
Thu Jan 1 00:54:51 EST 2015 Running postscript: syslog</nodename>

on management node:
tail -f /var/log/messages
------------------------> could not get log info above

[yangsong]

fixed in 2.10:

[root@c910f03c01p03 xcat-core]# git show
commit 1eeefe56f3c0f112a81b7ef2685b83d8ecf27111
Author: immarvin yangsbj@cn.ibm.com
Date: Thu Jul 9 02:45:12 2015 -0400

fix defect #4735 [fvt]2.10:could not get postscript section of the installer logs

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/anaconda.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/anaconda.pm
index 2dccff4..290d35b 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/anaconda.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/anaconda.pm
@@ -750,6 +750,8 @@ sub mknetboot
my ($host, $ipaddr) = xCAT::NetworkUtils->gethostnameandip($xcatmaster);
if($ipaddr){
$kcmdline .=" LOGSERVER=$ipaddr ";
+ }else{
+ $kcmdline .=" LOGSERVER=$xcatmaster ";
}

        $kcmdline .= " xcatdebugmode=1 ";

[yangsong]

fixed in 2.10:
commit 56478bf72ea826bc8238e99e247074ba62ea5f2b
Author: immarvin yangsbj@cn.ibm.com
Date: Fri Jul 10 05:34:09 2015 -0400
modify msgutil to match msgutil_r

commit 420aec57c36d8e8ccc54dd6aa61dd9186ae622aa
Author: immarvin yangsbj@cn.ibm.com
Date: Fri Jul 10 04:23:23 2015 -0400
try various log method according to the different version of logger

commit 4074b4f4e72c2b7b0d9466d563f10f506d6e4876
Author: immarvin yangsbj@cn.ibm.com
Date: Fri Jul 10 04:20:36 2015 -0400
try various log method according to the different version of logger

for ubuntu diskful, the logs in the postscript framework still can not be forwarded to MN, the logs in postbootscript can be forwarded to MN successfully.