Re: [webmin-l] A way to access the webmin BIND functions from a shellscript?

[Jim D. <jim...@gm...>]

This is awesome!!!

Now i just need the ability to read the args from a file (to allow for
multiple cname additions) and then do the soa bump at the end.

On 9/27/07, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> On 27/Sep/2007 12:13 Jim Drash wrote ..
> > Here is my problem:
> >
> > I need to be able to add Aliases (CNAMES) to a Zone file, increment
> > the SOA serial number, and apply the changes all from a shell script.
> > Is there a way to do this using the underlying capability built into
> > webmin without re-writing it?
>
> You could do this using a perl script - would that be acceptable? The code
> would be like :
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $main::no_acl_check++;
> $ENV{'WEBMIN_CONFIG'} ||= "/etc/webmin";
> $ENV{'WEBMIN_VAR'} ||= "/var/webmin";
> if ($0 =~ /^(.*\/)[^\/]+$/) {
>         chdir($1);
>         }
> chop($pwd = `pwd`);
> $0 = "$pwd/add-cname.pl";
> require './bind8-lib.pl';
>
> $zone = "zonename.com";
> $zonefile = "/var/named/$zone.hosts";
> @recs = &read_zone_file($zonefile, $zone);
> &create_record($zonefile, $zone.".", $ARGV[0], "IN", "CNAME", $ARGV[1]);
> &bump_soa_record($zonefile, \@recs);
> &restart_bind();
>
> You could save this as /usr/libexec/webmin/bind8/create-cname.pl , and then
> call it with two parameters - the name of the cname, and the value you want.
>
>  - Jamie
>
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