socket-executor
Execute a shell command and watch it's progress in your browser
Tornado backend, websocket+angular frontend.
Great for tracking the progress of long-running processes on remote servers.
Web UI
Has a neat responsive web UI that looks like this:
Installation
The easest way to install is with pip:
pip3 install socket_executorIf you're hell-bent on building it yourself:
You'll need to get bower before you install the python package so that you can 'bower install', this will pull in the js and css dependencies for the web UI. Once you have bower installed, the easiest way to install socket-executor is to simply use the install script:
./install.shRunning a Process
Use the 'socket-server.py' script (this will be installed to your path with the package)
$ socket-server.py -h
usage: Start up a process with a tornado web-socket-ey wrapper
[-h] [-p PORT] [--no-terminate] [--autoreload] [--history HISTORY] [-v]
command [command ...]
positional arguments:
command Command to execute. Will be run in bash, you should
quote your command, otherwise only the first token
will be used.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p PORT, --port PORT Port number to bind to, port 0 (the default) chooses a random open
port
--no-terminate Keep the server alive after child process has
terminated
--autoreload Should we autoreload the server if this script
changes? (for dev only)
--history HISTORY Number of lines of history to store
-v, --verbose More verbose loggingExample
Try a simple long-running command to get a good idea of what it looks like.
$ socket-server.py -v -p 8888 'ping www.google.com' #on linux, add '-c 99999' to make ping keep pinging
starting webserver on 8888
sending: PING www.google.com (216.58.216.228): 56 data bytes
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=13.423 ms
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=15.617 ms
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=15.292 ms
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=15.453 ms
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=15.490 ms
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=13.019 ms
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=12.616 ms
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=27.414 ms
WebSocket opened
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=18.577 ms
sending: 64 bytes from 216.58.216.228: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=13.532 msThen point your browser at http://localhost:8888/
Other thoughts:
I've really only tested this with python3 and chrome. If you write fixes for other browsers or python2, please submit a pull request.
