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Virtual Exam

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 <prac_name>
- set up a standard virtual exam environment
priv chown <path_wildcard>
change work directories ownership from 90<uid> to the exam account
needed for access to students files
after changing ownership, exam will not work, so do this only after the exam is 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 the 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 the exam account, you can't start up the exam with the same work directories. create a new work directory.
```
cd ~/exams/18s2supp
mv work work.19dec
mkdir work
chmod 1777 work
```

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 . needed for access to students files
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- * when the exam crashes after you authenticated with your zid, check the stderr.log file in <exam_account>/var directory. Look at the latest directory.
+ * 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.
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- * after chown-ing the work directories to the exam account, you can't start up the exam with the same work directories. create a new work directory.
+ * after changing ownership of the work directories to the exam account, you can't start up the exam with the same work directories. create a new work directory.