initial changes to convert all commands to be string based for consistency

daemon/core/services/coreservices.py

@@ -597,7 +597,6 @@ class CoreServices(object):
         status = 0
         for cmd in cmds:
             logging.debug("validating service(%s) using: %s", service.name, cmd)
-            cmd = utils.split_args(cmd)
             try:
                 node.node_net_cmd(cmd)
             except CoreCommandError as e:
@@ -631,7 +630,6 @@ class CoreServices(object):
         """
         status = 0
         for args in service.shutdown:
-            args = utils.split_args(args)
             try:
                 node.node_net_cmd(args)
             except CoreCommandError:
@@ -730,7 +728,6 @@ class CoreServices(object):
 
         status = 0
         for cmd in cmds:
-            cmd = utils.split_args(cmd)
             try:
                 node.node_net_cmd(cmd, wait)
             except CoreCommandError:

daemon/core/services/utility.py

@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ class HttpService(UtilService):
         Detect the apache2 version using the 'a2query' command.
         """
         try:
-            result = utils.check_cmd(["a2query", "-v"])
+            result = utils.check_cmd("a2query -v")
             status = 0
         except CoreCommandError as e:
             status = e.returncode