Question

I need to get dimm info using ipmitool as follows:

exec("/usr/bin/ipmitool -I lan -H $spip -U root -P '$thepassword' sunoem cli 'show System/Memory/DIMMs/$a' | grep -i location", $dimm_loc, $ipmiretval);

$a is previously defined as:
$a=$dimm[$i]

The return value for the above exec command is 1. If I replace $a with its vaule, i.e
exec("/usr/bin/ipmitool -I lan -H $spip -U root -P '$thepassword' sunoem cli 'show System/Memory/DIMMs/D5' | grep -i location", $dimm_loc, $ipmiretval);

The exec command executes as expected. So it looks like $a cannot be used in the above example. How else can I pass the variable to the exec command?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Run var_dump($a) and see what actualy it contains. Also dump the executed command as a string to see if command is formated properly.