Update:

As useful as tentakel was in my young sysadmin days it was always dangerous (one wrong command or quote character away from disaster), non-reproducible, needing constant documentation on changes done. I really don’t know if tentakel even exist anymore but if it does I strongly suggest you consider ansible instead.

You probably already know this old, unmaintained but incredibly useful software: tentakel. If not check it out, you might like it.

There are two issues we need to tackle:

1. Tentakel uses tpg but the bundled version is not compatible with python 2.6

Error thrown:

return self.lexer[start:stop]
TypeError: object cannot be interpreted as an index

The fix is to download this version of tpg from it’s developer: http://cdsoft.fr/tpg/TPG-3.1.2.tar.gz From this archive extract tpg.py and copy it to py/lekatnet/plugins in tentakel’s source tree.

Don’t try the latest TPG version as it will not work probably it’s parameters changed and tentakel doesn’t work. Basically we take a version old enough to work with tentakel (the built in is from 2003) and new enough to work with Python 2.6

2. Hide the md5 deprecation warning. This is not essential but seeing the warning everytime is annoying. Edit py/lekatnet/config.py and add around line 49 (after “”") Error shown:

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/lekatnet/plugins/rsh.py:32: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
import md5

It’s just a warning but it might interfere with automated tasks:

import warnings
warnings.simplefilter("ignore", DeprecationWarning)

After that build and install accordingly to INSTALL

3. The site-packages are not copied in the right place (at least for CentOS 6) so move /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/lekatnet to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/lekatnet

Enjoy.

After that build and install accordingly to INSTALL