(this is the guts of something posted off list - but it is relevant to
your post)
>If you're the sysad, you can let it do anything you're brave enough to
>allow. I just think you're going to end up hacking your webadmin
>interface to do 95% of what you're thinking of, and you'll wait until
>you have a real keyboard (or at least a palmtop) to do the remaining
>5%.
I do take your point. One whole class of problems could be handled by
scripts that one has in a particular directory. These scripts would just
do things and would not show output to the phone.
eg:
./mysql.server start
shutdown -r
A second class is similar to above, but one wants feedback.
eg: give me directory listing of /xxx/xxx/xxx
or: ps -afx
open file xx.xxx and show me last 30 lines.
both the above could be "webadmin" type buttons, perhaps with the ability
to specify parameters or names and paths.
A third class is where one wants to interact in text editor fashion.
eg: amend /etc/inittab ('cos something is loading that is suddenly
crashing the box).
*That* would require text editor functionality. Buttons are only useful
for the "we thought of this" cases. I recently had a major, nasty,
boxcrashing problem that the buttons approach would not have been able to
handle. Of course for that "5%" one can go to a "real computer", and in
that sense it is a convenience - but a very useful one.
of course if one has the ability to amend files and see output, one can
just write a script to execute arbitrary commands....
regards nick
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Received on Sun Jun 24 13:04:37 2001