How to create HTML links to invoke shell commands.

GUI to shell

[mack]

Not looking for an out of the box solution, just some rough info to get me started. What I am wanting to do is building a lan page that can be used to control shell commands. I know there are simple ways to speed up the process but I want to be able to place them in a protected directory and have access to the gui from pretty much anywhere.

My idea is to have an html page with links. Each link will cause a shell script to execute on the server.

My thinking tells me to use a scripting language, then have the scripts invoke a shell script to activate the actual command.

Can someone give me a few pointers.
Thanks.

Mack.

[encyclo]

Are you sure that you couldn't use Webmin? It is more of an "out-of-the-box" solution and it is pretty extendable:

[webmin.com...]

[mack]

Thanks encyclo,

I do use Webmin on the server. And you're right it's good.

What I want is to build a GUI pretty much for one app, withough having access to other system options. I guess Webmin can be set is such a way but it would be good to have a standalone set of scripts.

Mack.

[KingMacro]

if you mean a series of links that simple execute commands such as "stop program" executes "./something -stop" for example then you could do it in php of some other language fairly easilly

in php you could use <?exec("./something -stop");?> and if would execute it

if you want to interface with some running application then the it would get much more complicated