Removing writeTextToCommand()

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/sos/trunk@1021 ef72aa8b-4018-0410-8976-d6e080ef94d8

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/sos/plugins/networking.py b/sos/plugins/networking.py
index 9dd096dc..b0b92a55 100644
--- a/sos/plugins/networking.py
+++ b/sos/plugins/networking.py
@@ -35,13 +35,11 @@ class networking(sos.plugintools.PluginBase):
         the command.  If they aren't loaded, there can't possibly be any
         relevant rules in that table """
 
-        cmd = "/sbin/iptables -t "+tablename+" -nvL"
 
         (status, output, time) = self.callExtProg("/sbin/lsmod | grep -q "+tablename)
         if status == 0:
+            cmd = "/sbin/iptables -t "+tablename+" -nvL"
             self.collectExtOutput(cmd)
-        else:
-            self.writeTextToCommand(cmd,"IPTables module "+tablename+" not loaded\n")
 
     def setup(self):
         self.addCopySpec("/proc/net")
diff --git a/sos/plugintools.py b/sos/plugintools.py
index e1628b80..6f3a4df6 100644
--- a/sos/plugintools.py
+++ b/sos/plugintools.py
@@ -409,24 +409,6 @@ class PluginBase:
 
         return outfn
 
-    def writeTextToCommand(self, exe, text):
-        """ A function that allows you to write a random text string to the
-        command output location referenced by exe; this is useful if you want
-        to conditionally collect information, but still want the output file
-        to exist so as not to confuse readers """
-
-        outfn = self.makeCommandFilename(exe)
-
-        if not os.path.isdir(os.path.dirname(outfn)):
-            os.mkdir(os.path.dirname(outfn))
-
-        outfd = open(outfn, "w")
-        outfd.write(text)
-        outfd.close()
-
-        self.executedCommands.append({'exe': exe, 'file': outfn}) # save in our list
-        return outfn
-
     # For adding warning messages regarding configuration sanity
     def addDiagnose(self, alertstring):
         """ Add a configuration sanity warning for this plugin. These