update interface IP address with pexec so that backgrounded process output from the cli cannot interfere

2014-10-02 09:19:07 -07:00
parent ded25a9ef8
commit f1123e71ae
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ class Intf( object ):

    def updateIP( self ):
        "Return updated IP address based on ifconfig"
-        ifconfig = self.ifconfig()
+        # use pexec instead of node.cmd so that we dont read
+        # backgrounded output from the cli.
+        ifconfig, _err, _exitCode = self.node.pexec( 'ifconfig %s' % self.name )
        ips = self._ipMatchRegex.findall( ifconfig )
        self.ip = ips[ 0 ] if ips else None
        return self.ip