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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting To force a script to wait for another. Post 302249730 by Ne7o7 on Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 02:09:26 AM
Old 10-22-2008
Data To force a script to wait for another.

Hi All!

Here is the problem,

I'm trying to develop a script that can help me with the raid creation, but, till now, I have been dealing for more than a week and I still didn't achieve any satisfactory results. Smilie

Here is the code to execute:

# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1
# mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdb2
# mdadm --manage /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdb3
# mdadm --manage /dev/md3 --add /dev/sdb4

This wouldn't be difficult at all if this script was by itself but it comes after a partition disk operations and before I use grub for define the boot.

Here is how the structure of my global program looks like:

Global.sh
./Script for disk partition

./Mdadm script

./Grub script

The main problem is that the "grub script" must wait the "mdadm" one, otherwise it has no sense and it will return a mistake.

Because I'm a newbie in shell scripting I have been browsing around and I tried some of the things that look alike, but never I found a particular solution for this.

Here is the last one I tried

mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1 &
wait $!
until [ $? == "0" ]
do
clear
cat /proc/mdstat #I want to know the status of the procedure at any time
sleep 1
done
......
...... #The same for the rest of cases


It doesn't works even with the first one of them, It looks that doesn't goes inside the "until" and if I push a couple of times "enter" I can reach the prompt Smilie.

mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1 &
mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdb2 &
mdadm --manage /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdb3 &
mdadm --manage /dev/md3 --add /dev/sdb4 &
wait $!

This also doesn't works in the way I need, I can reach the prompt and grub doesn't wait. Smilie

Let's summarize:
*I would like to make an script with this commands inside

# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1
# mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdb2
# mdadm --manage /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdb3
# mdadm --manage /dev/md3 --add /dev/sdb4

*The next script to execute (grub.sh) has to wait till all this processes are finished

Meanwhile the execution:
*In order to control the raid operations this command=> "cat /proc/mdstat" has to be execute with a little delay all the time
*The user cannot reach the prompt, thus is, the keyboard should be "blocked"

P.S.:I'm running Debian
P.S.2:Sorry for my English, I hope we can understand each other Smilie

Thanks for any collaboration Smilie

Last edited by Ne7o7; 10-22-2008 at 03:56 AM..
 

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mdadm_selinux(8)					       SELinux Policy mdadm						  mdadm_selinux(8)

NAME
mdadm_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the mdadm processes DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the mdadm processes via flexible mandatory access control. The mdadm processes execute with the mdadm_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep mdadm_t ENTRYPOINTS
The mdadm_t SELinux type can be entered via the mdadm_exec_t file type. The default entrypoint paths for the mdadm_t domain are the following: /sbin/mdadm, /sbin/mdmon, /sbin/mdmpd, /sbin/iprdump, /sbin/iprinit, /sbin/iprupdate, /usr/sbin/mdadm, /usr/sbin/mdmpd, /usr/sbin/mdmon, /sbin/raid-check, /usr/sbin/iprdump, /usr/sbin/iprinit, /usr/sbin/iprupdate, /usr/sbin/raid-check PROCESS TYPES
SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux mdadm policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their mdadm pro- cesses in as secure a method as possible. The following process types are defined for mdadm: mdadm_t Note: semanage permissive -a mdadm_t can be used to make the process type mdadm_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. BOOLEANS
SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. mdadm policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run mdadm with the tightest access possible. If you want to allow users to resolve user passwd entries directly from ldap rather then using a sssd server, you must turn on the authlo- gin_nsswitch_use_ldap boolean. Disabled by default. setsebool -P authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap 1 If you want to allow all daemons to write corefiles to /, you must turn on the daemons_dump_core boolean. Disabled by default. setsebool -P daemons_dump_core 1 If you want to enable cluster mode for daemons, you must turn on the daemons_enable_cluster_mode boolean. Enabled by default. setsebool -P daemons_enable_cluster_mode 1 If you want to allow all daemons to use tcp wrappers, you must turn on the daemons_use_tcp_wrapper boolean. Disabled by default. setsebool -P daemons_use_tcp_wrapper 1 If you want to allow all daemons the ability to read/write terminals, you must turn on the daemons_use_tty boolean. Disabled by default. setsebool -P daemons_use_tty 1 If you want to deny any process from ptracing or debugging any other processes, you must turn on the deny_ptrace boolean. Enabled by default. setsebool -P deny_ptrace 1 If you want to allow all domains to use other domains file descriptors, you must turn on the domain_fd_use boolean. Enabled by default. setsebool -P domain_fd_use 1 If you want to allow all domains to have the kernel load modules, you must turn on the domain_kernel_load_modules boolean. Disabled by default. setsebool -P domain_kernel_load_modules 1 If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default. setsebool -P fips_mode 1 If you want to enable reading of urandom for all domains, you must turn on the global_ssp boolean. Disabled by default. setsebool -P global_ssp 1 If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos, you must turn on the kerberos_enabled boolean. Enabled by default. setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 1 If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the nis_enabled boolean. Disabled by default. setsebool -P nis_enabled 1 If you want to allow confined applications to use nscd shared memory, you must turn on the nscd_use_shm boolean. Enabled by default. setsebool -P nscd_use_shm 1 NSSWITCH DOMAIN
If you want to allow users to resolve user passwd entries directly from ldap rather then using a sssd server for the mdadm_t, you must turn on the authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap boolean. setsebool -P authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap 1 If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos for the mdadm_t, you must turn on the kerberos_enabled boolean. setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 1 MANAGED FILES
The SELinux process type mdadm_t can manage files labeled with the following file types. The paths listed are the default paths for these file types. Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions. cgroup_t /cgroup(/.*)? /sys/fs/cgroup(/.*)? cluster_conf_t /etc/cluster(/.*)? cluster_var_lib_t /var/lib/pcsd(/.*)? /var/lib/cluster(/.*)? /var/lib/openais(/.*)? /var/lib/pengine(/.*)? /var/lib/corosync(/.*)? /usr/lib/heartbeat(/.*)? /var/lib/heartbeat(/.*)? /var/lib/pacemaker(/.*)? cluster_var_run_t /var/run/crm(/.*)? /var/run/cman_.* /var/run/rsctmp(/.*)? /var/run/aisexec.* /var/run/heartbeat(/.*)? /var/run/cpglockd.pid /var/run/corosync.pid /var/run/rgmanager.pid /var/run/cluster/rgmanager.sk kdump_lock_t /var/lock/kdump(/.*)? kdumpctl_tmp_t mdadm_conf_t /etc/mdadm.conf mdadm_tmp_t mdadm_tmpfs_t mdadm_var_run_t /dev/md/.* /var/run/mdadm(/.*)? /dev/.mdadm.map root_t / /initrd sysfs_t /sys(/.*)? systemd_passwd_var_run_t /var/run/systemd/ask-password(/.*)? /var/run/systemd/ask-password-block(/.*)? FILE CONTEXTS
SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files. SELinux mdadm policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their mdadm processes in as secure a method as possible. STANDARD FILE CONTEXT SELinux defines the file context types for the mdadm, if you wanted to store files with these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute the semanage command to sepecify alternate labeling and then use restorecon to put the labels on disk. semanage fcontext -a -t mdadm_conf_t '/srv/mdadm/content(/.*)?' restorecon -R -v /srv/mymdadm_content Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. The following file types are defined for mdadm: mdadm_conf_t - Set files with the mdadm_conf_t type, if you want to treat the files as mdadm configuration data, usually stored under the /etc direc- tory. mdadm_exec_t - Set files with the mdadm_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the mdadm_t domain. Paths: /sbin/mdadm, /sbin/mdmon, /sbin/mdmpd, /sbin/iprdump, /sbin/iprinit, /sbin/iprupdate, /usr/sbin/mdadm, /usr/sbin/mdmpd, /usr/sbin/mdmon, /sbin/raid-check, /usr/sbin/iprdump, /usr/sbin/iprinit, /usr/sbin/iprupdate, /usr/sbin/raid-check mdadm_initrc_exec_t - Set files with the mdadm_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the mdadm_initrc_t domain. mdadm_tmp_t - Set files with the mdadm_tmp_t type, if you want to store mdadm temporary files in the /tmp directories. mdadm_tmpfs_t - Set files with the mdadm_tmpfs_t type, if you want to store mdadm files on a tmpfs file system. mdadm_unit_file_t - Set files with the mdadm_unit_file_t type, if you want to treat the files as mdadm unit content. Paths: /usr/lib/systemd/system/mdmon@.*, /usr/lib/systemd/system/mdmonitor.* mdadm_var_run_t - Set files with the mdadm_var_run_t type, if you want to store the mdadm files under the /run or /var/run directory. Paths: /dev/md/.*, /var/run/mdadm(/.*)?, /dev/.mdadm.map Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command. If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling database. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels. COMMANDS
semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context mappings. semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not a process type is permissive. semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove policy modules. semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings. AUTHOR
This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage . SEE ALSO
selinux(8), mdadm(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8) , setsebool(8) mdadm 14-06-10 mdadm_selinux(8)
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