Symlinks Plugin Source & Destination Selection Boxes Not Scrollable

When creating a new symlink, selecting the Browse directory buttons provides a popup box to allow filesystem navigation to select source and destination for the link. However these lists are not scrollable or movable by dragging. Reducing the size of all displayed elements in the browser far enough to see the entire displayed listing results in (to me anyway) an illegible list.

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Yes, the symlinks plugin on Chrome or Firefox, same problem.

Thanks for confirming and looking into it.

An enhancement to this plugin that many users who created symlinks by hand pre-plugin days would like:

To have the ability to navigate into a directory via a file browser button and then import any existing symlinks. Would be helpful if you have a bunch of existing links that you want to edit, delete, or just have them all in one place for viewing.

Well, it was just a thought. Thanks though.

Zitat von ryecoaaron

Not done with the idea. Just the easiest idea is out.

OK.

I was able to quickly create them anew in the plugin one by one. An ls-al listing in the shell gave me what I needed to paste into the creation box in both places. Some quick editing and then a Save. Throws a red popup about the directory already exists but that didn't prevent it from properly

creating.

For anyone watching the thread who needs to do this:

cut from the ls -al of /srv:

d5 -> /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-dd8ff6bf-6680-470f-b67c-26401b436fda

Then paste into the create box in two places and prune down to what's needed and save.

The command found every one that I created (those in /srv) and some more. If it missed any that I didn't create I wouldn't know.

fred@omv:~$ sudo find / -maxdepth 4 -type l -regextype posix-egrep -not -regex '/(bin|boot|dev|etc|lib|proc|run|sbin|sys|usr)/.*'

[sudo] password for fred: 

/sbin
/initrd.img.old
/bin
/srv/d4
/srv/d1
/srv/d10
/srv/dp2
/srv/d8
/srv/d0
/srv/d5
/srv/d6
/srv/d7
/srv/dp1
/srv/d9
/srv/d3
/srv/d2
/libx32
find: ‘/proc/155245/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155246/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155247/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155248/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155249/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155250/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155251/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155252/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155253/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155254/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155255/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155256/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/155257/net’: Invalid argument
/initrd.img
/vmlinuz.old
/vmlinuz
/lib32
/lib64
/var/spool/mail
/var/run
/var/lock
/lib

That sounds like it would work well. Thanks for going the extra distance on this.

Zitat von ryecoaaron

6.0.2 in the repo with the import feature.

Thank you so very much for this and all you do for us!

I am updating now and will report back.

The import function works well, but I find that I have to doubleclick the little arrow to get the list of importable links. Is this intended?

A word to the wise when using the import function. This will "bring in" a user selected previously existing symlink and make it available for manipulation such as editing, disablement, or deletion. Any of these actions can have potentially serious consequences.

For example, I imported the /bin link. Once I saw that it imported properly I deleted it. What I failed to realize was that deleting it wouldn't just delete it from the list in OMV, it also would delete it from the system drive. The result of this was having to perform a restore from this morning's dd backup image of the system. And even doing this was complicated because things were smashed so hard that I had to multiboot back into my old OMV 5 stick to be able to transfer the dd image to my workstation. Choose wisely. I chose poorly.

I just tried the import list down arrow again and it filled out instantly. Prior tries showed the blue progress bar advance to the right instantly and stay that way without showing the list until I clicked again. I'll keep an eye on this.

I was going to recreate the link but I could not login. Not via ssh or via the ipmi SOL console. I didn't think to try pulling the stick and using my desktop box, try making the link there. Or maybe I could have booted to OMV 5, chrooted into the OMV 6 stick and remake the link. I had to pull the stick anyway to do the restore, so I guess I just wasn't thinking.

Oh well, that was a real world test of dd image backup restores. Happy to report my bacon was saved again!