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.
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....
>
>
