On 4/5/06, Shane Stixrud <shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > > > A useful cmdline tool to interact with dbus would go a long long way. > > Something for dbus which is at least as functional a tool as gconftool > > is for gconf. > > I am curious what type of interactions do you for-see admins performing > with dbus? I am not that familiar with dbus but it sounds interesting, it > is unclear to me how an admin would use it though. How exactly do i answer that if you aren't familiar with dbus? I suggest you look at oddjob in Extras, which lets you define simple dbus clients that wrap common admin actions so that you can communicate over dbus to fire off those actions. I think if you are able to understand how to use oddjob then you will understand why I think having a cmdline tools which allows for instrospection over the bus would be invaluable to help admins learn how to use dbus communication effectively. oddjob is the first software implementation that I've seen that attempts to harness the power of dbus communications as a tool for sysadmin tasks instead of streamlining the desktop user oriented experience at the application level. Introspection isn't so important when dbus as a sort of back-channel for application-to-application communication... but its definitely much more important when dbus is exposed directly as a tool to help sysadmin's better organize the janitorial crap they have to do locally on their systems. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
