Administration of different s9y installations

ads · Post by **ads** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:29 pm

Hello,

with the time i got more s9y installations which i have to look after. They are on different hosts and are used by different ppl. Now it is burdening to check each blog from time to time if there are plugin or theme updates available.

Is there a way to fetch the plugin update status for a blog from remote ... without writing a script to login and parse the result output?

Thanks

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:52 pm

Hi!

Hm,nice idea. Hasn't come up yet. It would be possible to alter the spartacus plugin to get its unique "check URL" that tells you about version changes, I'm sure. Could be coded in an hour or two...

Regards,
Garvin

ads · Post by **ads** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:04 pm

Nice would be something like:

GET http://my.blog/s9y/update_status.php

resulting in:

pluginname1: OK
pluginname2: OK
pluginname3: UPDATE
pluginname4: OLD

Where OLD means: no longer supported.
Such an output (more or less) would be easibly parseable by a cron script (i'm willing to write this one) to inform the admin about updates.

Don't know, if anyone knows Debian's cron-apt? Something like this.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:48 pm

Hi!

Check the updated spartacus plugin:

http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/serendipi ... iew=markup

Regards,
Garvin

ads · Post by **ads** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:26 pm

I'm not entirely sure, how i should access the new functionality.
Can you give me an example please? Thanks

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:16 pm

Hi!

First, you need to update your spartacus plugin with that new file (also check out the lang_en.inc.php file in the same directory, by manipulating that ViewSVN link).

Then configure the spartacus plugin on the plugin you uploaded the file to. There are two new options, first you need to enable the remote admin logging, and second you need to enter a secret key for it.

Then you call the URL that is mentioned in the description of the first of the two new options.

HTH,
Garvin

ads · Post by **ads** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:58 pm

Works fine for me (at least, the OK status), will see, if it works, if there are some updates available.

I promised a script to run as example from cron. You can find a first version at:

http://base.wars-nicht.de/projects/sere ... spartacus/

Explanation is in the .php file, i also created a sample config file.

Let me know, if you have more ideas.

ads · Post by **ads** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:21 am

It took some time but there aren't any updates since i installed the modified plugin version.

Last night my blog finally hit an UPGRADE for serendipity_event_linklist version 1.97.

So it seems, the extension is working.

ads · Post by **ads** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:57 pm

I updated the software and wrote an explanation:

Manage Serendipity installations with Spartacus

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:01 pm

Thanks for the documentation!

I really believe that this kind of enhancement -- what real people need in the real world -- is what makes s9y such a wonderful blog engine.

Administration of different s9y installations

Administration of different s9y installations

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