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?
-Charles
On 7/27/06, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> 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.
I would love that too
Maybe a header/footer for the notes page would solve that?
-Charles
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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
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