Creating a fixlet to run yum update -y

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I’ve attempted to create a fixlet to run the following commands
#!/bin/sh
yum -y update --nogpgcheck
yum clean all
rm -rf /var/cache/yum

I came up with this

//Shell to Action Script Conversion Utility
delete __appendfile

appendfile #!/bin/sh
appendfile yum -y update –nogpgcheck
appendfile yum clean all
appendfile rm -rf /var/cache/yum

//modify appendfile to allow execution
wait chmod 555 "{(client folder of current site as string) & “/__appendfile”}

//execute shell script as written
wait “{(client folder of current site as string) & “/__appendfile”}”

Could someone help me fix it

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Try changing the last line to invoke the shell directly (assuming the script itself does what you want) and also explicitly use ‘pathname of folder’

wait /bin/sh -c "{(pathname of client folder of current site as string) & "/__appendfile"}"

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Thank you for the response. I received these commands from the conversion site. what I’m trying to accomplish is simply this. Create a fixlet that will go to a targeted Linux server, run the yum -y update -nogpcheck command and when done reboot the server.

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You can execute the command as mentioned by @JasonWalker and in the Post Action use restart system after action completes.

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I recommend you do this as a TASK rather than a FIXLET.

The TASK only cares that all the lines ran without error. A Fixlet will re-evaluate the Relevance clauses and they would have to evaluate to FALSE after the completion or you get a FAILED status.

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