[hobbit] Host Notes

Mon Jul 31 23:51:01 CEST 2006

Henrik,

Forgive me, as I am not thinking clearly today (it is Monday afterall).  
You give a patch for bb-webpage.c, but I am unclear as to whether I am 
supposed to replace the orig bb-webpage with this new one, or rename 
patched version to "hostnotes", and craft a "hostnotes.sh" to go in the 
cgi directory that calls it?

I understand that using the header and footer file will give the notes 
the standard hobbit look, which will be nice.

Please tell me again in different terms how I should do this (or maybe I 
should just read it tommorrow when I'm thinking better haha).

Thanks,
-Charles

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 07:05:04PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> Do you plan on adding a cgi to enable live editing of "notes" 
> (www/notes/hostname) files? I saw in the manpage for bb-gen mention of a 
> script on dead-cat that gives that functionality, but I would like to 
> eventually see something that builds a "nice looking" notes page that 
> has the same background and font color etc as the rest of the Hobbit 
> pages. Currently if you just put something in a notes file you get a big 
> ugly white screen with the raw text.
> 
> Maybe a header/footer for the notes page would solve that?

Here's a simple solution for viewing the host notes, using mostly the tools 
you already have:

* a notes_header and notes_footer file, mostly cloned from the existing
  bb_header and bb_footer files. These go in your ~hobbit/server/web/
  directory.
* a simple CGI using the bb_webpage utility. This goes in your
  ~hobbit/cgi-bin/ directory.

Testing this revealed a bug in bb_webpage, so there's a patch for it as
well.

To use this, add "--docurl=$CGIBINURL/hostnotes.sh?HOST=%s" to BBGENOPTS in 
hobbitserver.c and restart Hobbit.

The CGI shell-script currently looks only for files named
.../notes/HOSTNAME - you can probably figure out how to change this if
you want to look for HOSTNAME.html, HOSTNAME.txt or whatever you like.


Regards,
Henrik

--- web/bb-webpage.c	2006/05/03 21:12:33	1.8
+++ web/bb-webpage.c	2006/07/28 07:12:09
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 /*                                                                            */
 /*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
-static char rcsid[] = "$Id: bb-webpage.c,v 1.8 2006/05/03 21:12:33 henrik Exp $";
+static char rcsid[] = "$Id: bb-webpage.c,v 1.9 2006/07/28 07:12:00 henrik Exp $";
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
 	
 	headfoot(stdout, hffile, "", "header", bgcolor);
 	do {
-		n = fread(inbuf, sizeof(inbuf), 1, stdin);
-		if (n > 0) fwrite(inbuf, n, 1, stdout);
+		n = fread(inbuf, 1, sizeof(inbuf), stdin);
+		if (n > 0) fwrite(inbuf, 1, n, stdout);
 	} while (n == sizeof(inbuf));
 	headfoot(stdout, hffile, "", "footer", bgcolor);
 

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