webfriends-python

Track your friends in UNSW cse labs over the web.

Instructions:

Basic Install

Clone webfriends to your public_html (on your cse account) directory using git clone https://github.com/csesoc/webfriends-python.git
You need to install the dependencies into the webfrieds-python folder:

flask
itsdangerous
jinja2
markupsafe
werkzeug
jsonpickle

Open webfriends.py.cgi/ with a web browser. Make sure that you include the trailing slash, or you will get a 500 error.

Temperature and SSH Data

To get the temperature and ssh data, I use a cron job to pull it off ~status, since the cgi server doesn't have the permissions. However you decide to gather the data, it needs to end up in the cache/temp and cache/server directory (named after the name of the server/lab).

My scripts are as follows:

#!/bin/sh

labs=( "mabu" "clavier" "organ" "guan" "erhu" "oud" "piano" "banjo" "sanhu" )

mkdir -p public_html/webfriends-python/cache/temp
for i in "${labs[@]}"
do
    tail -n 1 ~status/temperature/lab-$i > public_html/webfriends-python/cache/temp/$i
done

#!/bin/sh

servers=( 'wagner' 'weill' 'williams' )

mkdir -p public_html/webfriends-python/cache/server
for i in "${servers[@]}"
do
    ssh $i who > public_html/webfriends-python/cache/server/$i
done

Ask for more explanation if this doesnt make sense.

Todo:

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Webfriends is available under the Apache License 2.0.

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