LinHES-system:

-updated for python2
-removed firstboot
-added msg_client and msg_daemon
-moved displaying help to later in the seq.  LinHES-session now uses msg_client

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/abs/core/LinHES-system/msg_client.py b/abs/core/LinHES-system/msg_client.py
new file mode 100755
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+++ b/abs/core/LinHES-system/msg_client.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python2
+#client for  msg_daemon
+
+import socket
+import sys
+
+# Create a UDS socket
+sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+
+# Connect the socket to the port where the server is listening
+server_address = '/run/msg_socket'
+def send_message(message):
+    #print >>sys.stderr, 'connecting to %s' % server_address
+    try:
+        sock.connect(server_address)
+    except socket.error, msg:
+        print >>sys.stderr, msg
+        sys.exit(1)
+    try:
+        sock.sendall(message)
+        #amount_received = 0
+        #amount_expected = len(message)
+
+        #while amount_received < amount_expected:
+        #    data = sock.recv(16)
+        #    amount_received += len(data)
+        #    print >>sys.stderr, 'received "%s"' % data
+
+    finally:
+        #print >>sys.stderr, 'closing socket'
+        print "message sent"
+        sock.close()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    if len(sys.argv) == 2:
+        send_message(sys.argv[1])
+    else:
+        print "Unknown command"
+        print "usage: %s msg to display" % sys.argv[0]
+        sys.exit(2)
+    sys.exit(0)