Question

I am having a bit of a problem with a script that I setup. A little background:

The function of the script is to read from a list of servers that is in a text file separated by :: , log on to the servers, check to see that mysql is running and report back. The file is configured such that each line has: Servername::Ip address::port number

The problem I am having is that I think perl is trying to concatenate the ip address that I am feeding to the function I have in the code. Can anyone point my in the right direction?

#!/usr/bin/perl                                                                                           

use strict;
use warnings;

open(FH, '<', 'serverlist_test') or error("Cannot open file , ($!)");
while (my $line = <FH>) {
    our ($name, $ip, $port) = split(/::/, $line);
    my $version = &MySQL_check($ip, $port);                                                                                    
}
close FH;

sub MySQL_check {

    my $issue = `ssh -t root@"$_[0]" -p$"_[1]" 'ps axco command | grep -i mysql'`;
    print $issue;
    if ($issue =~ /mysql/) {                                                                             
      return "Mysql found"; 
    } else {                                                                                             
       return "Mysql not found";                                                                         
    }                                                                                                    
}

What am I doing wrong?

Thank You.

Answer 1

Put in some print-debugging code so you can see the command being run. So change:

my $issue = `ssh -t root@"$_[0]" -p$"_[1]" 'ps axco command | grep -i mysql'`;

to

my $command = qq`ssh -t root@"$_[0]" -p$"_[1]" 'ps axco command | grep -i mysql'`;
warn "Going to run \"$command\""; # comment this out when your code works!
my $issue = `$command`;

This should flag up the problem with the command. It’s almost certainly because you didn’t chomp the lines you read from the file, so the port number actually has \n after it.