On Dec 30, 2010, at 7:19 PM, Niphlod wrote:
>
> uhm, the more I see http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/inithooks the
> more I fear that there is required a single script.... that could be
> prepared in a short while, but needs to be updated if
> main.save_password changes.
I don't see the problem.
>
> On Dec 31, 3:45 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 30, 2010, at 6:32 PM, ghoulmann wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Jonathon, Niphlod, Massimo, thank you for taking the time to write. I
>>> think I know much less than I implied in my original post.
>>
>>> Is the Jonathon and Niphlod produced something I can simply drop into /
>>> usr/lib/inithooks/firstboot.d and expect to ask the user the web2py
>>> password?
>>
>>> I'm assuming a shebang line first, of course.
>>
>> Almost. It requires a web2py patch first, and for the two web2py.py commands
>> to work, you'll have to know the full path.
>>
>> And that's assuming that firstboot.d runs interactively....
>>
>>
>>
>>> Or is this to get me started and working in the right direction?
>>> Because I truly don't know Python (had three lessons in an online
>>> course), I'm afraid a need direction.
>>
>>> Any takers?
>>
>>> Rik Goldman
>>
>>> On Dec 30, 9:20 pm, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> glad to be helpful and give my 2 cents to this community.
>>>> your helptext is definetely acceptable, in the long run maybe a
>>>> comment in the code will be more helpful than the "explicit"
>>>> helpstring of optparse
>>
>>>> Niphlod
>>
>>>> On Dec 30, 11:06 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Niphlod wrote:
>>
>>>>>> uhm....
>>>>>> virtually very very very draft of Jonathan's concept.....
>>
>>>>> That looks about right, perhaps with some minor wording changes:
>>
>>>>> help='exit after saving password' (no sense in confusing the user
>>>>> about file names, and there's really no other initialization involved)
>>
>>>>> print 'no password to save; exiting'
>>
>>>>> (remove the "Creating..." print)
>>>>> print 'password saved; exiting'
>>
>>>>>> in gluon/widget.py , after "if '-A' in sys.argv: k = sys.argv.index('-
>>>>>> A')" (line 695, in trunk), add:
>>
>>>>>> parser.add_option('',
>>>>>> '--exit',
>>>>>> action='store_true',
>>>>>> dest='force_exit',
>>>>>> default=False,
>>>>>> help='allows to save parameters.py file in order
>>>>>> to initialize the environment'
>>>>>> )
>>
>>>>>> then, before " if options.quiet:" (line 704, in trunk):
>>
>>>>>> if options.force_exit and options.password == '<ask>':
>>>>>> options.password = raw_input('choose a password:')
>>>>>> if not options.password:
>>>>>> print 'no password, --exit specified, clean shutdown'
>>>>>> sys.exit(0)
>>>>>> if options.force_exit and options.password:
>>>>>> print 'Creating parameters.py file'
>>>>>> main.save_password(options.password, options.port)
>>>>>> print 'parameters.py created, now exiting'
>>>>>> sys.exit(0)
>>
>>>>>> tested and working....
>>
>>>>>> eg: you can call
>>>>>>> web2py.py -a yourpass --exit
>>>>>>> web2py.py -a '<recycle>'
>>
>>>>>> and everything works.
>>
>>>>>> Make sure you start the webserver with the same port (default 8000,
>>>>>> can be overridden with -p)
>>
>>>>>> Humbly helping ^_^
>>
>>>>>> Happy new year, if we'll not see within the next days....
>>
>>
