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Re: Using sudo to write to a file as root from a script

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On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 08:21:22 -0500, Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:47 PM, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:

>import subprocess
>import sys
>
>channel='stable'
>config_file='/opt/ldg/etc/channel.conf'
>command="echo -n %s | sudo tee %s > /dev/null" % (channel, config_file)
>
>try:
>  retcode = subprocess.call(command, shell=True)
>  if retcode < 0:
>    sys.exit('Error: Failed to set channel.conf')
>except OSError as e:
>  sys.exit('Error: Execution failed "%s"' % e)
>
>But I was under the impression that Popen was the preferred approach
>to running external processes?
>

	It is... But you have to consider that you are attempting to run two
processes with one invocation...

	You need two subprocess calls, one for the sudo and one for the echo,
and you need to take the output of the echo process and feed it to the
input of the sudo process.

	Something like (UNTESTED):

sudo = subprocess.Popen("sudo tee %s" % config_file, 
							stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
							stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
echo = subprocess.Popen("echo -n %s" % channel,
							stdin=None,
							stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

sudo.communicate(echo.communicate[0])


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Re: Using sudo to write to a file as root from a script Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-08-09 19:47 -0400

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