Problem with `arp -a`

Rails
1

Hi everyone.

I have a problem with this command:

@arp_table = arp -n

When I execute it on console, all is perfect, but when I put it in the
script on Rails the string arp_table is empty and I don’t view any
result.

If I do a script like that:

@list = ls -l

all works perfectly.

Where is the mistake ?

Thanks in advance

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Misha M. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I have a problem with this command:

@arp_table = arp -n

When I execute it on console, all is perfect,
Are you passing arp any other arguments? On OS X, arp -n just prints a
help message to stderr.

Where is the mistake ?

If arp -n may be printing to stderr, rather than stdout. Try:

@arp_table = arp -n 2>&1

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Jeff S. wrote:

Misha M. wrote:

Hi everyone.

I have a problem with this command:

@arp_table = arp -n

When I execute it on console, all is perfect,
Are you passing arp any other arguments? On OS X, arp -n just prints a
help message to stderr.

Where is the mistake ?

If arp -n may be printing to stderr, rather than stdout. Try:

@arp_table = arp -n 2>&1

Thank you for your reply.
The problem was very silly. The user that execute the rails script is
www-data, and the arp command isn’t in the user’s PATH variable. There
was, also, a permission problem. I’ve installed sudo and I’ve solved.

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Quoting Misha M. [email protected]:

What user is the command running as? On my system (OpenSuSE 10.3) arp
is in
/sbin, i.e., root only.

Jeffrey