edsysadm(1M) (Essential Utilities) edsysadm(1M)
NAME
edsysadm - sysadm interface editing tool
SYNOPSIS
edsysadm
DESCRIPTION
edsysadm is an interactive tool that adds or changes either menu and
task definitions in the sysadm interface. It can be used to make
changes directly on-line on a specific machine or to create changes
that will become part of a software package. The command creates the
administration files necessary to achieve the requested changes in
the interface and either places them in the appropriate place for
on-line changes or saves them to be included in a software package.
edsysadm presents several screens, first prompting for which type of
menu item you want to change, menu or task, and then for what type of
action to take, add or change. When you select add, a blank menu or
task definition (as described below) is provided for you to fill in.
When you select change, a series of screens is presented to help
identify the definition you wish to change. The final screen
presented is the menu or task definition filled in with its current
values, which you can then edit.
The menu definition prompts and their descriptions are:
Menu Name The name of the new menu (as it should
appear in the lefthand column of the
screen). This field has a maximum length of
16 alphanumeric characters.
Menu Description A description of the new menu (as it should
appear in the righthand column of the
screen). This field has a maximum length of
58 characters and can consist of any
alphanumeric character except at sign (@),
carat (^), tilde (~), back grave (`), grave
('), and double quotes (").
Menu Location The location of the menu in the menu
hierarchy, expressed as a menu pathname.
The pathname should begin with the main menu
followed by all other menus that must be
traversed (in the order they are traversed)
to access this menu. Each menu name must be
separated by colons. For example, the menu
location for a menu entry being added to the
Applications menu is main:applications. Do
not include the menu name in this location
definition. The complete pathname to this
menu entry will be the menu location plus
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the menu name defined at the first prompt.
This is a scrollable field, showing a
maximum of 50 alphanumeric characters at a
time.
Menu Help File Name Pathname to the item help file for this menu
entry. If it resides in the directory from
which you invoked edsysadm, you do not need
to give a full pathname. If you name an
item help file that does not exist, you are
placed in an editor (as defined by $EDITOR)
to create one. The new file is created in
the current directory and named Help.
The task definition prompts and their descriptions are:
Task Name The name of the new task (as it should
appear in the lefthand column of the
screen). This field has a maximum length of
16 alphanumeric characters.
Task Description A description of the new task (as it should
appear in the righthand column of the
screen). This field has a maximum length of
58 characters and can consist of any
alphanumeric character except at sign (@),
carat (^), tilde (~), back grave (`), grave
('), and double quotes (").
Task Location The location of the task in the menu
hierarchy, expressed as a pathname. The
pathname should begin with the main menu
followed by all other menus that must be
traversed (in the order they are traversed)
to access this task. Each menu name must be
separated by colons. For example, the task
location for a task entry being added to the
applications menu is main:applications. Do
not include the task name in this location
definition. The complete pathname to this
task entry will be the task location as well
as the task name defined at the first
prompt.
This is a scrollable field, showing a
maximum of 50 alphanumeric characters at a
time.
Task Help File Name Pathname to the item help file for this task
entry. If it resides in the directory from
which you invoked edsysadm, you do not need
to give a full pathname. If you name an
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item help file that does not exist, you are
placed in an editor (as defined by $EDITOR)
to create one. The new file is created in
the current directory and named Help.
Task Action The FACE form name or executable that will
be run when this task is selected. This is
a scrollable field, showing a maximum of 58
alphanumeric characters at a time. This
pathname can be relative to the current
directory as well as absolute.
Task Files Any FACE objects or other executables that
support the task action listed above and
might be called from within that action. Do
not include the help file name or the task
action in this list. Pathnames can be
relative to the current directory as well as
absolute. A dot (.) implies "all files in
the current directory" and includes files in
subdirectories.
This is a scrollable field, showing a
maximum of 50 alphanumeric characters at a
time.
Once the menu or task has been defined, screens for installing the
menu or task or saving them for packaging are presented. The package
creation or on-line installation is verified and you are informed
upon completion.
NOTES
For package creation or modification, this command automatically
creates a menu information file and a prototype file in the current
directory (the directory from which the command is executed). The
menu information file is used during package installation to modify
menus in the menu structure. A prototype file is an installation
file which gives a listing of package contents. The prototype file
created by edsysadm lists the files defined under task action and
gives them the special installation class of "admin". The contents
of this prototype file must be incorporated in the package prototype
file.
For on-line installation, edsysadm automatically creates a menu
information file and adds or modifies the interface menu structure
directly.
The item help file must follow the format shown in the Programmer's
Guide: System Services and Application Packaging Tools in the
``Customizing the Administration Interace'' chapter or in the System
Administrator's Guide in the ``Customizing the sysadm Interface''
appendix.
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SEE ALSO
delsysadm(1M), pkgmk(1), prototype(4), sysadm(1M)
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