Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v2 11/20] Osstest/PDU: Add eth008.pm method to control the ARM rack PDU

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST v2 11/20] Osstest/PDU: Add eth008.pm 
method to control the ARM rack PDU"):
> This controls the eth008 relay board: 
> http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/eth008tech.htm
> 
> Due to the use of the CGI interface this requires firmware version 4+.
...
> +    # Create a netrc file to avoid putting l/p on command line
> +    my ($passfh, $passfilename) = tempfile( UNLINK => 1 );
> +    print $passfh "machine $mo->{PDU} login $mo->{User} password 
> $mo->{Pass}\n";

Where does tempfile(UNLINK=>1) create its files and what deletes it if
the script crashes ?  It might be better to use something in tmp/
(presumably with the host name in the filename).  See for example
ts-host-install which uses tmp/t.<host>.initrd.

Or of course you could use LWP::UserAgent.

Ian.

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