Log books for the Linux VM mochines:

FINAL EXAM Guided Tour:   Things to see and do:

• ► Created new user jay. The full name "Jay Jaeckel" appears on the KDE login screen.
  • Relevant part of the debian5vm machine log

• ► Downloading doggie web site from sdf machine to debian5vm:
  • Downloading files from sdf to csrh1 – Discussion and transcript
  • Relevant part of the debian5vm machine log
  • List of getdog.sh shell script — Downloading from csrh1 to debian5bm using rsync.
  • View the most recent rsync download log — (Viewable on debian5vm machine only)
  • jeremy's crontab

• ► Running dmesg(1) to view most recent System Messages:
  • Relevant part of the debian5vm machine log
  • List of run-dmesg.sh shell script. — When run (intended to be a cron task), this generates the dmesg-log.html output.
  • View the most recent dmesg list thus produced. — (Viewable on debian5vm machine only.)
  • jeremy's crontab
  • For an even better viewing experience, there is a PHP script to do the same, but fancier-schmancier:
    When run, this generates the dmesg web page in real-time, on the fly, on demand, rather than simply displaying a static page that may have been generated by a cron task some time ago (which is what the above run-dmesg.sh scheme does.) It auto-refreshes every five seconds.
  • List of run-dmesg.php script.
  • Run the PHP script now. — (Only works correctly on debian5vm machine, not on sdf machine.)

Note that running dmesg (as above) repeatedly via a cron task is substantially uninteresting, as the messages tend to never change much. It might be much more interesting to view web access log messages (and error messages) instead, since new messages are added frequently (including as a result of viewing these pages). Thus, we will write scripts to do that as well:

• ► New scripts: run-weblog.sh and run-weblog.php scripts to view Web access messages (and errors):
  • Relevant part of the debian5vm machine log
  • List of run-weblog.sh shell script. — When run (intended to be a cron task), this generates the web-log.html output.
  • View the most recent web log output thus produced. — (Viewable on debian5vm machine only.)
  • jeremy's crontab
  • Just as with the dmesg stuff, there is a fancier-schmancier PHP script for this too:
    When run, this generates the web access log page in real-time, on the fly, on demand, rather than simply displaying a static page that may have been generated by a cron task some time ago (which is what the above run-weblog.sh scheme does.) It auto-refreshes every five seconds.
  • List of run-weblog.php script.
  • Run the PHP script now. — (Only works correctly on debian5vm machine, not on sdf machine.)

• ► PHP/MySQL demo, in case you haven't seen it yet: The class roster database implemented with MySQL, including links to everybody's freeshell web pages. (This was actually here all along, since Mid-Term days.)
  • Run it now.
  • View listing of the PHP script

• ► VNC Server and VNC viewer installed and tested:
  • Relevant part of the debian5vm machine log

Other (possibly interesting) stuff (most recent first):