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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: gabriel on January 11, 2002, 05:23:54 AM
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Hi
Anybody have or know how I can get a list of e-smith variables (like
$DOMAIN, $IPADDRESS, etc) and It description?
Thanks, Gabriel
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Here is one way - I'm sure that Charlie B won't like it, but that's ok :-)
#!/bin/sh
#
# Get Variables and Print them out
# This script is public domain / freeware (if anybody cares??)
#
# If you just want to print out the information:
#
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration show ExternalIP | sed 's/^.*=//'
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration show LocalIP | sed 's/^.*=//'
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration show GatewayIP | sed 's/^.*=//'
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration show ExternalNetmask | sed 's/^.*=//'
# If you want to store the information in a variable to use later:
SRV=/sbin/e-smith/db configuration show SambaServerName | sed 's/^.*=//'
echo "The name of your server is: $SRV. How about that?"
The output looks like this:
35.28.234.54
192.168.1.1
192.168.65.1
255.255.255.0
The name of your server is: apollo. How about that?
And to get a list of variables:
cat /home/e-smith/configuration | more
I don't know, like I said this is just a start and I'm sure someone will bitch about it.
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I figured out another way (at least to get IP's, subnet's etc.) and this one will work on most linux systems like RedHat, etc.
#!/bin/sh
#
# Prints out internal / external IP
# This script is public domain / freeware (if anybody cares??)
#
INT=ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet" | awk '{ print $1,$2 ; }' | sed 's/^inet addr://'
EXT=ifconfig eth1 | grep "inet" | awk '{ print $1,$2 ; }' | sed 's/^inet addr://'
echo " "
echo "Your internal address is: $INT"
echo "Your external address is: $EXT"
echo " "
The output:
Your internal address is: 192.168.1.1
Your external address is: 35.23.52.42
If this is for a configuration file, then you will have to make templates and break up your scripts. Take a look in /etc/e-smith/templates/ for more detail.
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And if you want to use e-smith templates:
in /etc/e-smith/templates or /etc/e-smith/templates-custom
just enter:
in a folder called the name of your file... eg.
if /etc/empty.conf is the name of your configuration file for a program or something then you must create a directory.
mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/empty.conf
cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/empty.conf
vi 10template
Domain={$DomainName}
Workgroup={$SambaWorkgroup}
External IP={$ExternalIP}
Local Netmask={$LocalNetmask}
save your work (:wq!)
In order to "pull" variables into your new file /etc/empty.conf you must:
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/empty.conf
presto, you just created a file with valuable information. I just figured all this out tonight... :-)
You can also add your own variables to the /home/e-smith/configuration file if you want to... and be able to pull them later.
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set MyVariable johnsmith
Now you can "pull" MyVariable (which is current johnsmith) into your templates.
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Ok! thanks to... nobody? :-)
Thank you a lot, your explanation was a very very good begin with this stuff.
But... (oh! what he want now?) I can´t find the virtual domains name data... where is stored?
I want to automate the IP refresh for dyndns.org at /sbin/e-smith/dynamic-dns/dyndns.org on all my existing and future virtual domains. (a hard target to my first Perl program?, I am tired to begin with the old "hello world" :-)) ).
Cheers, Gabriel
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These are all good questions for the development group. It sounds like you are ready for that.
Sign up:
http://www.e-smith.org/content/developers/
And start asking away.
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Nobody wrote:
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> These are all good questions for the development group. It
> sounds like you are ready for that.
No, these are questions for the Experienced Users forum. The devinfo list is for development issues - not for asking questions that (in a lot of cases) can be answered by searching the archives.
Des Dougan
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These sound a lot like development questions, Des.
An experienced question would be something like...
"I have a Windows 2000 server and I would like it to be a BDC for my SME5 server. How can this be accomplished."
A development question is...
"I am building an RPM that installs custom templates, actions and a webpanel. But I need the "x" variable in order to make it work. What command can I use to do this because this SME/E-smith system is very confusing to new programmers..."
So, Des... why don't you answer his question instead of telling him what not to do?
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Nobody wrote:
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> These sound a lot like development questions, Des.
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I disagree. Gabriel is looking for help with setting up dyndns. This is a regular question on these forums and a search will likely pull up a number of answers which might help. I don't use dyndns so can't provide specific answers.
Devinfo is specifically for discussion on extending SME, not on "how do I do this" questions. My intention was to save Gabriel a wasted trip, not to discourage him.
Des Dougan