Re: [stellation-res] Commands to svcadmin

["Dale Bennett" <dben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.  I knew I'd feel silly after asking that one!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Stellation-res" <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [stellation-res] Commands to svcadmin


> On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 08:28, Dale Bennett wrote:
> > I've finally found some time to do some work on SQLServer support and
> > have made a number of mods, however I'm having a little trouble
> > understanding the way svcadmin decides if a command is valid or not.
> >
> > when I ask svcadmin to create a database using the command
> > "sqlserver:stellation <username> <password>"
> > It tells me that the command is invalid; no big surprise but I can't
> > seem to find where valid commands are defined!  I've searched and
> > debugged to no avail.
> >
> > I know that Selector and CommandSelector are involved and can see
> > where the svc commands are defined but the svcadmin commands elude me.
> >
> > Maybe someone could point me in the right direction.
>
> With the caveat that I'm no expert on the command line stuff, I'm pretty
> sure that the commands provided by svcadmin are defined using a
> Selector, defined in Admin.getCommandSelector. The only command
> currently provided by svcadmin is "initialize". Perhaps you're omitting
> the command? That is, perhaps you're doing
> svcadmin sqlserver:stellation <username> <password>
> instead of:
> svcadmin initialize sqlserver:stellation <username> <password>.
>
>
> (I know it looks a little odd that it's got all the mechanics of command
> selection when there's only one command, but the intention is that
> eventually the admin command will be used for invoking other
> administrators operations, like backup/restore, etc. So the framework is
> there for future expansion.)
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >             Dale Bennett.
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> Mark Craig Chu-Carroll,  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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