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Virtual Exam

Work in Progress or Draft only

Please read the documentation of virtual exam

$/!\$ The way the virtual exam white listed software (etc/vx.conf) will be rewritten early in Term 1 to better cope with software changes on CSE computers.

Useful scripts

~give/stable/bin/prac_install_vx <from_prac> <to_prac>
- set up a standard virtual exam environment
  if <from_prac> != <to_prac>
  - copy <from_prac> from virtual directory if exists copy <from_prac> from gaol directory otherwise
  else
  - copy <from_prac> from gaol directory
priv passwd
- change the vxN (eg vx6) password before and after the exam with this script
- add the class account public key to the exam account (eg cs2521exam)
priv chown <path_wildcard>
- change work directory ownership from 90<uid> to the exam account to access students' files
- after changing ownership, students can't start the exam. so, do this only after the exam has finished.
~give/stable/bin/vx-conf-product.pl
- strace the command
- feed the output of strace to this script
- add vx.conf files as arguments
- script will output files that are missing from the config files
dpkg-query, apt-cache depends

Tips

when the exam crashes after you authenticated with your zid, check the stderr.log file under <exam_account>/var directory. Look at the latest directories.

marimba % ls -lt ~/var | head -5
total 988
drwxr-xr-x 2 cs9024exam cs9024exam 4096 Feb 13 06:59 marimba-25528
drwxr-xr-x 2 cs9024exam cs9024exam 4096 Feb 12 20:49 wagner-7800
drwxr-xr-x 2 cs9024exam cs9024exam 4096 Feb 12 20:33 vx4-45795
drwxr-xr-x 2 cs9024exam cs9024exam 4096 Feb 12 18:39 vx4-34624

after changing ownership of the work directories (to exam account), you can't start the exam with the same work directories.
- create a new toplevel work directory.
```
cd ~/exams/18s2supp
mv work work.19dec
mkdir work
chmod 1777 work
```
- or remove the student's work directory
```
cd ~/exams/18s2supp/work
priv chown z5555555
rm -r z5555555
```

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- * ~give/stable/bin/prac_install_vx <prac_name>
+ * ~give/stable/bin/prac_install_vx <from_prac> <to_prac>
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+   if <from_prac> != <to_prac>
      copy <from_prac> from virtual directory if exists
      copy <from_prac> from gaol directory otherwise
   else
      copy <from_prac> from gaol directory
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-   . change work directory ownership from 90<uid> to the exam account
   . for access to students' files
+   . change work directory ownership from 90<uid> to the exam account to access students' files
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-   . script will output the files that are missing from the config files
+   . script will output files that are missing from the config files
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- * after changing ownership of the work directories (to exam account), you can't start the exam with the same work directories. create a new work directory.
 {{{
+ * after changing ownership of the work directories (to exam account), you can't start the exam with the same work directories.
   * create a new toplevel work directory.
   {{{
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- }}}
+   }}}
   * or remove the student's work directory
   {{{
cd ~/exams/18s2supp/work
priv chown z5555555
rm -r z5555555
   }}}