Re: about views

["Adam \"Tauvix\" Debus" <northstar@delsol.net>]

What if you spawned a script upon initiating a copy? It can still run as the
"nobody" user that Apache runs as, but that would remove the possibility of
the copy being interrupted (in normal course of business. A power or
equipment failure is still going to kill it of course ;) ).

Yeah, the initial permissions setup is going to be a nightmare, but once
it's done you never have to touch it again. :)

Adam "Tauvix" Debus
Network Administrator, ReachONE Internet
adam@reachone.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hitesh Patel" <hitesh@presys.com>
To: "Hays, Kelly" <Kelly.Hays@ttuhsc.edu>
Cc: <northstar-devel@brownkid.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: about views


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> On Wednesday 22 May 2002 11:24 am, Hays, Kelly wrote:
> > >> May be Views could be useful in another way: suppose you have to
modify
> > >> your addressing plan; obviously you don't want to modify your
original
> > >> database because you're not so sure about which changes to do. So it
> > >> could be useful to have the possibility to copy entire addressing
plans
> > >> with only one action.
> > >> I have an addressing plan in View A; I'll copy it in View B and the
I'll
> > >> do the changes...something like a backup version!
> > >> Any comment about that?
> > >> Gerardo
> > >
> > >Good idea, I will add this to the TODO list.
> > >
> > >Not sure if it should be a seperate 'utility' script under the contrib
> > >directory or in the main program.. comments?
> >
> > I can see were I might want to allow someone that does not have shell
> > access to the box running Northstar.
> > Kelly
>
> Good point, however copying an entire view could take a while depending on
the
> number of blocks involved.. and if it were to get interrupted because
> someones web browser crashed/timed-out/lost their internet connection it
> could cause problems... i'm going to go ahead a write a copy that can run
> from the command line and then will see about the best may to move that
into
> the main interface.  The code will mostly be exactly the same so it
shouldn't
> be to hard..
>
>
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