Merge lp:~racb/maas/ipmipower-stdin-lp-1053391 into lp:~maas-committers/maas/trunk

[Robie Basak]

Work around ipmipower requiring input on stdin

ipmipower doesn't work with stdin connected to /dev/null, so connect it to something else as a workaround.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

That's, errr, special. :(

Thanks for the fix.

review: Approve

=== modified file 'src/provisioningserver/power/templates/ipmi.template'
--- src/provisioningserver/power/templates/ipmi.template	2012-09-17 17:27:02 +0000
+++ src/provisioningserver/power/templates/ipmi.template	2012-09-20 15:57:23 +0000
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 
 # Issue command to ipmipower, for the given system.
 issue_ipmi_command() {
+    # See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1053391 for details of this workaround
+    echo workaround |\
     ${ipmipower} -h ${power_address} -u ${power_user} -p ${power_pass} --$1
 }