[MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread yan
I'd like to be able to run shell commands from a menu. I've looked at the MaintenanceShell extension, but that's not what I am looking for - it's too broad. What I need is a menu option that a user can click on and that executes a single, predetermined shell command on the server. Does anything

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: I'd like to be able to run shell commands from a menu. I've looked at the MaintenanceShell extension, but that's not what I am looking for - it's too broad. What I need is a menu option that a user can click on and that executes a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread yan
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: I'd like to be able to run shell commands from a menu. Would it be acceptable for this to be implemented as a special page that the user would visit, that would then immediately execute the shell command? That would work, yes.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:35 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: I'd like to be able to run shell commands from a menu. Would it be acceptable for this to be implemented as a special page that the user would visit, that would then

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread yan
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:35 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: I'd like to be able to run shell commands from a menu. Would it be acceptable for this to be implemented as a special page that the user would visit, that would then

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, y...@seiner.com wrote: H... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/GoToShell No such extension I take it I can copy and paste the files off the web page? Also, how difficult would it be to extend it to allow multiple commands

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread yan
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, y...@seiner.com wrote: H... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/GoToShell No such extension I take it I can copy and paste the files off the web page? Also, how difficult would it be to extend it to allow multiple commands

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Run shell commans from a menu

2013-12-04 Thread Chad
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM, y...@seiner.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, y...@seiner.com wrote: H... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/GoToShell No such extension I take it I can copy and paste the files off the web page?