Hi Jef, On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:40 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > If I had a better personal understanding of the capabilities of the > dbus commandline tools like dbus-send that would help. Are there > existing examples of dbus-send usage that do useful work in the wild? This document is out of date http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/*checkout*/hal/hal/doc/spec/hal-spec.html but it is where stuff like this will end of for HAL... but we're pre-1.0 so we're working more on code than documentation. We take patches though :-). Send them to http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal We can also answer specific questions about what parameters the Mount() method takes. And I'm normally a lot more reasonable on that list than here :-).... The best advice I can give you right now... is to read the gnome mount source... here http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-mount/src/gnome-mount.c it will show you what the parameters are... and what exceptions you need to catch.. Hope this helps... Btw /etc/pm/hooks/00NetworkManager is one example of using dbus-send. > I honestly do not grok dbus communication well enough to be able to > parse the example you give usefully from a "get crap done with a shell > script" sysadmin point of view. And the errors spawned the what I > assume to be non-functional example in the dbus-send on the fc4 > manpage leaves my mouth agape and my eyes glassy. > > If you know of something better than > http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-tutorial.html > to help sysadmins learn enough about dbus to use dbus-send effectively > please let me know. Especially any existing generally useful scripts > that exist to do useful work. >From another mail: > Actually since we are talking about scripting dbus actions with the > cmdline tools... how do i get access to dbus's introspection ability > via the cmdline tools so that as a sysadmin I can explore the object > path and valid messages? There is not really an easy way to do this yet. But someday we'll have nice introspection and a generic browser UI for these. David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
