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.
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....
