Re: [cobalt-users] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![MASTER-CD]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Cobalt User" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now, Steve Werby, you said you have the scripts running on your machine,
do
> they work fine? Would you please tell me what you've done?

I run some of the RaQx CGI scripts from the commandline on a RaQx.  I never
said I run them on a non-Cobalt machine (see my snipped quote at the bottom
of the email).  My point was that the hidden directories you discovered
aren't are well known by many of us who run some of the perl scripts
contained in these directories from the shell, make modifications to them
and call them from our own scripts.  Over the years, Cobalt employees have
even mentioned these files numerous times on-list when answering people's
questions.  I run some of the scripts from the commandline b/c it's more
efficient for me.  Whenever I'm working on a server I have an SSH connection
to the shell open so it's easier for me to edit /etc/named/records and
copy/paste "/usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi" from a reference
file on my server into an SSH window than it is for me to login through the
GUI, navigate to the DNS page, make changes and save them.  If you spend
some time inspecting the files in /usr/admserv/ you'll learn a lot about how
the Cobalt GUI and backend scripts work, where templates and images are,
where GUI webpages are, etc. and with this knowledge and a strong
programming and Linux admin background you could make a lot of modifications
to your system, build additional modules for the GUI and make them available
to the Cobalt community or build your own GUI from the ground up.  If you
want to learn more about GUIs check out the Webmin software
 http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ ).  Webmin is a free GUI for
Linux/Unix/Solaris/BSD and other Unix-like OSes.  Your time might be better
spent implementing Webmin and helping with the development of 3rd party
modules.

"Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I run several of these scripts from the commandline.  For example, I use
> > /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi to repopulate the DNS .pri
> files
> > from the records file which I edit manually.

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Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
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