On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Kasper Laudrup <laud...@stacktrace.dk> wrote:
> Hi fellow Django users, > > I'm working on creating a Django application for managing DHCP leases and > DNS entries and for that I would like to be able to (re)start the DHCP > daemon from Djano. > > I think it would be best to simply use a popen object from pythons > subprocess module (most likely wrapped in a class), but I'm not really sure > which place would be the most logical place to keep that object? Of course > there should only be a single instance of that object. > > I have also been looking into using some kind of service framework, but > what I have found so far seems to be aimed at task queues (celery etc.), > which would definitely be an overkill for my use case. > > It could also be that I'm approaching this the wrong way, in which case I > would be happy to hear better ideas on how to do this. > > Thanks a lot for any input. > > Kind regards, > > Kasper Laudrup > With this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/89228/calling-an-external-command-in-python you can find out which distribution is using, then for each distribution there's a different command for restarting DHCP (systemctl, upstart, system-v) and with the same execute it with sudo to some user with privileges to just do that. You can call that function ("restart_dhcp()") from any django view. HTH > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms > gid/django-users/f86f877c-3462-b8bd-95ac-3da1c77c8f72%40stacktrace.dk. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2BFDnh%2Bpzu%3DE2yKHEkcPZhj8X3nA-29pwRfTo%3DSqk%2BOmjQUxkw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
