[Da-tools-discuss] Configuring the host to pull data from

[Mark Hymers]

On Thu, 27, Dec, 2007 at 09:36:30AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt spoke thus..
> I hate (iii), think (i) is hackish and am not happy about (ii), so
> perhaps someone else has an opinion?

What about extending (i) to be a fairly trivial ud-config python script
which allows us to query the config file from shell; something like:

ud-config ldaphost
ud-config basedn

Trivial version attached which I'll commit if people think it's sensible.

Mark

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#!/usr/bin/python
#
#   Copyright (c) 2007  Mark Hymers <mhy at debian.org>
#
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import sys
import imp

usage = '''Usage: ud-config VARIABLE
Prints config information from userdir-ldap.conf'''

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print usage
    sys.exit(1)

try:
   File = open("/etc/userdir-ldap/userdir-ldap.conf");
except:
   File = open("userdir-ldap.conf");

ConfModule = imp.load_source("userdir_config","/etc/userdir-ldap.conf",File);
File.close();

try:
    res = getattr(ConfModule, sys.argv[1])
    print res
except AttributeError:
    sys.exit(1)
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