A hack to allow power fencing to work with cobbler and a SeaMicro chassis.

fence_seamicro

#!/usr/bin/env python

import re
import sys
import os
import pwd
import grp
import subprocess
import logging
from logging import handlers

# drop root privs, if necessary

if os.getuid() == 0:
  nobody =  pwd.getpwnam('nobody').pw_uid
	nogroup =  grp.getgrnam('nobody').gr_gid
	os.setgroups([])
	os.setgid(nogroup)
	os.setuid(nobody)

logger = logging.getLogger('fence_seamicro')
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
logger.addHandler(handlers.SysLogHandler('/dev/log'))
logger.warn('SeaMicro fence hack, running as %s' % os.getuid())

to_run = sys.stdin.readlines()[0]
args = re.split('\s+', to_run.strip())
logger.info('fence hack running: %s' % args)
subprocess.call(args)