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Re: Handling commands missing from a given distribution ...

From: Kedar Mhaswade <Kedar.Mhaswade_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:39:47 -0700

Jane Young wrote:
> This would be a good feature.
>
> Keep in mind that asadmin may not be executed on the system that is

You mean may not be "executing", right?

> running the server. We may need to introduce a "root" role so that
> user can have the permission to install commands on the server side.

Yes, that's understood here. This is similar to "sudo ...".

>
> Jane
>
>
>
> Lloyd Chambers wrote:
>> It would be a nice touch.
>>
>> But what is the likelihood of using a command for something that is
>> not installed on the server (perhaps intentionally)...isn't that
>> putting the cart before the horse?
>>
>> Lloyd
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>>
>>> Soliciting inputs from all of you regarding this interesting
>>> problem I am seeing with modular nature of the server.
>>>
>>> The inspiration is drawn from Ubuntu. On my Ubuntu machine, when I
>>> say "svn", it says:
>>>
>>> The program 'svn' is currently not installed. You can install it by
>>> typing:
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install *subversion*
>>>
>>> Thus, it knows the "intent" of the user and helps him/her to get there.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be nice to have something similar for asadmin especially
>>> since we are in a diverse environments of distributions like web
>>> profile,
>>> full Java EE 6 profile, cluster-aware installation/domain,
>>> or just a domain that's missing certain "capabilities" that might be
>>> available in update center? e.g. you do
>>>
>>> asadmin migrate-timers ... on a domain/installation that has no
>>> EJB support and it comes back and says:
>>>
>>> EJB support is currently not installed. You can install it by typing
>>> pkg install glassfish-v3-ejb (or whatever that is).
>>>
>>> I am tempted to add this as a requirement in CLI spec. What are your
>>> thoughts? If we decide to do this, we need a lot of co-ordination across
>>> teams to do this.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Kedar
>>>
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>>
>> Lloyd Chambers
>> lloyd.chambers_at_sun.com
>> GlassFish Team
>>
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