RexOps/Rex

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Rex, the friendly automation framework

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Forks: 214
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 191

Dominant language: Perl
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Jun 27, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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Beginner labels: help wanted
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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191 open issues indexed

upload_and_run doesn't separate $command from first arg Open

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RexOps/Rex#1616 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2024
SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable not available to Rex Open

triage needed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1615 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 23, 2024
stderr being printed out for Rex::Service instead of captured for $running_upstart Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1612 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 23, 2024
Documentation lacks clear info which feature flags are activated by default Open

triage needed

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RexOps/Rex#1611 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 29, 2023
Enable errors from Augeas to be retrieved Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1609 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 23, 2023
Filenames with backslashes causes a fatal error for Rex::Commands::Sync Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

RexOps/Rex#1607 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2023
QEMU is not necesarily libvirt, but Rex::Hardware::VirtInfo regards it as that Open

triage needed

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

RexOps/Rex#1604 · Opened Aug 7, 2023
Rex::Hardware::VirtInfo does not handle stuff properly outside of Linux Open

triage needed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

RexOps/Rex#1603 · Opened Aug 7, 2023
Rex::Commands::Sync excludes are poorly handled Open

triage needed

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RexOps/Rex#1597 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2023
IPv6 server entries are not handled correctly Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

RexOps/Rex#1594 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 3, 2023
Add basic NixOS support Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1586 · 2 comments · Opened May 4, 2023
Missing documentation of Rex::Interface::Connection namespace Open

bug docs needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

RexOps/Rex#1578 · Opened Mar 2, 2023
"signed-by" option in for Debian Repositories Open

feature request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

RexOps/Rex#1556 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 18, 2022
Rex::Virtualization doesnt accept a hashref like intended Open

info needed triage needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1549 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 9, 2022
killall command fails with: no can_run function in Process.pm Open

bug

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RexOps/Rex#1548 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2022
`needs` is missing from `main` namespace Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

RexOps/Rex#1547 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2022
needs: syntax error under v5.36 (indirect) Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

RexOps/Rex#1543 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2022
`Rex::Commands::Fs::df` fails on `tcsh` Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

RexOps/Rex#1529 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2022
INI file with server auth setting sudo=true does not use sudo Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

RexOps/Rex#1520 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 19, 2021
Account bumps password set time, even when it doesnt Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1510 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2021
The `needs()` function should propogate run-time task arguments (`%params` and `@args`) from the calling task down to the "needed" tasks Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

RexOps/Rex#1508 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2021
Do not set by default SSH port when using Net::OpenSSH Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1495 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 22, 2021
Notify users about discovery step after connection Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

RexOps/Rex#1490 · Opened May 12, 2021
Support external shell interface modules Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1481 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 13, 2021
Execute command before moving file into its final location Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1478 · Opened Mar 5, 2021
Deprecate built-in template engines Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RexOps/Rex#1475 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2021
LibVirt: Initial support for virtio-scsi virtual drives (read: ssd trim) Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

RexOps/Rex#1473 · Opened Feb 15, 2021
Don't use local @ARGV=...; <> for slurping file contents Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

RexOps/Rex#1466 · Opened Feb 10, 2021
Controlling Virtualbox Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

RexOps/Rex#1465 · Opened Feb 10, 2021
Placeholder POD for rexify needs updated or removed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

RexOps/Rex#1464 · Opened Feb 10, 2021
Confusing results when calling run_task on undefined target Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

RexOps/Rex#1463 · Opened Jan 27, 2021
Hostname used withing Host entries in ssh config Open

triage needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

RexOps/Rex#1458 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 13, 2020
Make it easy to discover which groups a server belongs to Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

RexOps/Rex#1443 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 15, 2020
Support basic file system commands on Windows Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1438 · Opened Oct 4, 2020
Add more on_no_change hooks Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1431 · Opened Sep 30, 2020
Outdated rexify features need deprecation or replacement Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

RexOps/Rex#1403 · Opened Aug 19, 2020
Inline file templates are outdated in the rexify binary Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1402 · Opened Aug 19, 2020
Error executing commands with space in their full path Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

RexOps/Rex#1401 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2020
FreeBSD Jails Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RexOps/Rex#1400 · Opened Aug 16, 2020
Consider adding support for pkgsrc Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RexOps/Rex#1394 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2020
Provide build artifacts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

RexOps/Rex#1390 · Opened Aug 2, 2020
Call to "get cmdb" on Darwin outside of a task throws bash error Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

RexOps/Rex#1367 · Opened Jun 30, 2020
sudo'ing with rsync probably stomps on --rysnc-path setting Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

RexOps/Rex#1356 · Opened Jun 25, 2020
notify task does not work Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

RexOps/Rex#1329 · 2 comments · Opened May 22, 2020
Allow cron to update existing cron entries Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1328 · 4 comments · Opened May 22, 2020
read buffer tests on FreeBSD are bailing out sporadically Open

help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

RexOps/Rex#1327 · 2 comments · Opened May 21, 2020
cannot sync to server over non-standard ssh port Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

RexOps/Rex#1315 · Opened May 9, 2020
Show build information in version output Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1305 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 23, 2020
Rex hangs when trying to modify file without proper permission (macos) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1299 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2020
Cannot get rsync to keep group ownership of downloaded files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RexOps/Rex#1290 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 10, 2020

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