I've given a FreeBSD to run a webserver and I always use Portmaster, but it's been installed with Portupgrade.
Is there any problem if I simply start using Portmaster?
Portupgrade and portmaster are interchangeable. You can safely use them together on one box, since they are separated from ports database.
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I am needing to use Puppet to create windows shortcuts on hosts to be accessed via SAMBA. The Puppet side I'll be fine with, it's the script I've been having issues getting working.
I've tried to use:
mslink_v1.3.sh (http://www.mamachine.org/mslink/index.en.html)
pylnk3.py (https://pypi.org/project/pylnk3)
lnk.py (https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/mklnk)
mslink_v3.sh on first look covers it all, with the exception of what I need to do. Similar with pylnk3.sh and lnk.sh working together, just a different reason for it not to work.
I am trying to create a windows shortcut to a network location with a argument with a space in it. Example below:
Path to exe = \\myhostname\program.exe
Argument = \\myhostname\program.ini loadabc
mslink_v3.sh will not let me surround the argument in single or double quotes, but works fine for network locations. pylnk3.sh/lnk.sh will not work for network locations, argument with spaces are ok via quotes. I did find in the end a code reference in pylink3.sh that network locations have not been implemented yet.
I've not found away to contact the developer of mslink_v3.sh to see about a tweak. I was going to comment on his post on this site, but I did not have enough points (hoping this post may give me enough).
Any suggestions at this point would be good.
Thanks
Matt
I contacted the developer of pylnk3.py via GitHub. He's added network support and also added all the cli support that lnk.py added.
Link below to the branch with all the development included:
https://github.com/strayge/pylnk/tree/cli_options
I'm coding a program to do some action with webdriver and Autoit in python, I want to do two things before I start selling my code:
Add onetime activation code to my software on one PC, like to make the program works only on one pc.
Make my program able to receive updates from the internet once I add to the code some more features or correct some others.
is it possible only with Python? or what is the method statement to do it?
On client side you need use hard-disk serial or/and uuid of partition or Operational System timestamp + something to generate serial code .
On server side , you need a API to store hard disk serial to validate if this is a computer valid . And you client on load check if activaction is valid .
The second question i can't answer .
Regarding the second part of your question:
Create a text file with the latest version of your application and put it on your webserver e.g. http://download.example.com/example-app-version.txt to get and read its value later.
On your python code download and read the text (for Python 3+ use 'import urllib.request' and urllib.request.urlretrieve) when your app runs and compare it against the installed version (if statement).
E.g.
if latestVer > installedVer:
#update
else:
#application continues
Context
I'm building my complete debian system configuration,
so I'm modifying the keyboard and console setups.
I prefer not to modify the base files to keep a maximum
commpatibility and modularity. So I want to use VARIANT
(see setupcon (5)) and load them at init.
But not sure I'm doing it right.
Desired Architecture
I will only use keyboard file for the following example.
There is the base file /etc/default/keyboard
And two possible custom files (according to setupcon (5))
~/.keyboard
/etc/default/keyboard.variant
~/.keyboard
It provides a custom behaviour per $HOME (user)
/etc/default/keyboard.variant
A global and default keyboard setup
I would like to use the three at a time.
Problem
The daemon calling setupcon are console-setup and console-setup-mini
(according to the coments in their initd scripts). They are started
before login shell, so won't know ~/.keyboard.
setupcon needs to be called
setupcon variant
or, looking at the sources, with a variable $VARIANT
VARIANT=variant
What is the best solution to adopt, saving a maximum modularity.
Thank you,
All standards compliant applications in Linux store a desktop schema in /usr/share/applications/. In my particular use case, I have a WnckWindow data structure and I can get a pid from that. Using this pid, I can extract the command line from the proc.
Unfortunately, it seems that the proc command line entry does not match the desktop schema launch parameters. For example, the 'thunderbird' application is launched via /usr/bin/thunderbird but this is just a shell script which activates the real executable: /usr/lib/thunderbird-8.0/thunderbird-bin.
The real executable cannot be launched directly as it is dependent on the library paths configured in the /usr/bin/thunderbird script. Does anyone have any advice on how to match process id numbers to the appropriate desktop schema without getting caught by the issue I've described?, Thanks.
Ok, well, it appears that there's no nice way of solving this using the pid, however, it is relatively easy to match the Wnck windows class to application desktop schemas. The Wnck windows class needs to be preprocessed a little first to ensure that the filter works but it's pretty trivial stuff. Once you've got a good set of target strings, eg 'Thunderbird' or 'Google' + 'Chrome', you can use the system application menu API to zero in on a likely candidate, for example, by using garcon on Xfce.
I am using visual studio 2008 and MFC. I accept arguments using a subclass of CCommandLineInfo and overriding ParseParam().
Now I want to pass these arguments to the application while running. For example "test.exe /start" and then to type in the console "test.exe /initialize" to be initialized again.
is there any way to do that?
Edit 1: Some clarifications. My program starts with "test.exe /start". I want to type "test.exe /initialize" and initialize the one and only running process (without closing/opening). And by initialize I mean to read a different XML file, to change some values of the interface and other things.
I cannot think of an easy way to accomplish what you're asking about.
However, you could develop your application to specifically receive commands, and given those commands take any actions you wanted based upon receiving them. Since you're already using MFC, you can do this rather easily. Create a Window (HWND) for your application and register it. It doesn't have to be visible (this won't necessarily make you application a GUI application). Implement a WndProc, and define specific messages that you will receive based on WM_USER + <xxx>.
First and obvious question is why you want to have threads, instead of processes.
You may use GetCommandLine and CommandLineToArgvW to get the fully formatted command line. Detect the arguments, and the call CreateProcess or ShellExecute passing /watever to spawn the process. You may also want to use GetModuleBaseName to get the name of your own EXE.