WeraDesk Web Interface Documentation - How does it work?

To start WeraDesk from a browser, enter the following URL: http://myhost.mydomain/~wera/WeraDesk.html
If you allowed JavaScript to open unrequested windows, a window showing the current WERA status will automatically pop up. Then fill out or modify the form as described in the WeraDesk User's Guide and hit [submit].

This action activates the script /home/wera/public_html/cgi-bin/WeraDesk:

#!/bin/bash # WeraDesk.sh www interface for WeraDesk /home/wera/public_html/cgi-bin/echo2file [1] /home/wera/public_html/cgi-bin/Proc_WeraDesk [2] cat /home/wera/public_html/WeraDesk.html [3] exit

1. The program /home/wera/public_html/cgi-bin/echo2file
receives the parameters filled in the html-form and saves them to
/home/wera/etc/WeraDesk.tmp .

2. This intermediate file is read in by
/home/wera/public_html/cgi-bin/Proc_WeraDesk ,
which modifies the original html-form and status pages at
(a) /home/wera/public_html/WeraDesk.html and
(b) /home/wera/public_html/Wstatus.shtml, and creates a control file
/home/wera/weractrl/ctrl_data.cpy
which is passed to /home/wera/weractrl/mkcron.
mkcron modifies the crontab-file to schedule calls to stm if 'continuous acquisition' is started/stopped,
or starts a measurement cycle by calling stm directly.

3. The command cat /home/wera/public_html/WeraDesk.html
redisplays the modified form in the browser.

Comments to: gurgel@ifm.uni-hamburg.de (Klaus-Werner Gurgel)