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 like that exit? All my google searches end up at Maintenance shell.....
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, yan@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 single, predetermined shell command on the server.
Does anything like that exit? All my google searches end up at Maintenance shell.....
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?
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, yan@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.
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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:35 AM, yan@seiner.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, yan@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.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoToShell sounds like the one you want then.
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:35 AM, yan@seiner.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, yan@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.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoToShell sounds like the one you want then.
Hmmmm...
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 (I have 8 commands I need to run right now; that's going to run up to 9 shortly. I can set up 9 special pages by changing the names but that seems like overkill v. just passing an argument to select the command.)
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, yan@seiner.com wrote:
Hmmmm...
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 (I have 8 commands I need to run right now; that's going to run up to 9 shortly. I can set up 9 special pages by changing the names but that seems like overkill v. just passing an argument to select the command.)
Yeah, you can copy and paste the files. I thought that kind of more complicated stuff was what MaintenanceShell was designed to do? In what way was MaintenanceShell too broad?
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, yan@seiner.com wrote:
Hmmmm...
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 (I have 8 commands I need to run right now; that's going to run up to 9 shortly. I can set up 9 special pages by changing the names but that seems like overkill v. just passing an argument to select the command.)
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Maybe I'm missing something about the maintenance shell. I don't want my users to see any of the "bones"; I just want them to click on a link and have things done.
I thought maintenance shell gives you a terminal type environment you then can work in with specific commands?
We're using the wiki to create manuals, and I want my editors to be able to click a link and create a release version that automatically gets copied to a download directory. The release version is date stamped and the script creates a link to the current version of the manual. I don't want to give them access to the server or have them have to do anything more.
I'll look at maintenance shell again, too, while I'm working on this.
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM, yan@seiner.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, yan@seiner.com wrote:
Hmmmm...
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 (I have 8 commands I need to run right now; that's going to run up to 9 shortly. I can set up 9 special pages by changing the names but that seems like overkill v. just passing an argument to select the command.)
Yeah, you can copy and paste the files. I thought that kind of more complicated stuff was what MaintenanceShell was designed to do? In what way was MaintenanceShell too broad? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Maybe I'm missing something about the maintenance shell. I don't want my users to see any of the "bones"; I just want them to click on a link and have things done.
I thought maintenance shell gives you a terminal type environment you then can work in with specific commands?
We're using the wiki to create manuals, and I want my editors to be able to click a link and create a release version that automatically gets copied to a download directory. The release version is date stamped and the script creates a link to the current version of the manual. I don't want to give them access to the server or have them have to do anything more.
I'll look at maintenance shell again, too, while I'm working on this.
How about just making a special page, and when you click specific links or buttons on it it'll kick off some calls to wfShellExec() or what have you?
-Chad
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