Deploy Sphinx to RPI3

I need to be able to drop the new files from the Chronicle My Brain project on to the RPI3 NetBSD box.

I could use rsync, but that requires elevated privileges or creating a “login” to push the files.
I decided to be creative but maybe over complicated; however, it works.
- Create a deploy.sh on the workstation that tars the /var/vroot directory to /tmp/cmb.tar.gz.
- Transfer that file to the web server via scp using the local $USER. Make sure you have ssh keys copied so you do not need to input user name and login.
- Create a deploy.sh script on the server. It will live in $HOME/bin/deploy.sh
- That script looks in $HOME/lz for the cmb.tar.gz file. If it’s there we untar to root, then remove the file from $HOME/lz
- Added crontab to run $HOME/deploy.sh every minute. Log to $HOME/log/cmb.log. If the file is not there, do not log anything.

Clunky… but it works.

Client Side deploy.sh

TARGET=192.168.6.176
tar czvf /tmp/cmb.tar.gz /var/vroot
scp /tmp/cmb.tar.gz $TARGET:lz/.

Server Side deploy.sh

#!/bin/sh
FILE="/home/rgeorgia/lz/cmb.tar.gz"
LOG="/home/rgeorgia/logs/cmb.log"

if [ -f "$FILE" ]; then
    echo "[$(date +'%y-%m-%d %H:%M')] ${FILE} found" >> $LOG
    doas tar xzvf $FILE -C /  >/dev/null
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "[$(date +'%y-%m-%d %H:%M')] Operation Failed, Exit Code: $?" >> $LOG
    else
        echo "[$(date +'%y-%m-%d %H:%M')] SUCCESS. Exit Code: $?" >> $LOG
        rm $FILE
        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
            echo "[$(date +'%y-%m-%d %H:%M')] $FILE not removed: $?" >> $LOG
        else
            echo "[$(date +'%y-%m-%d %H:%M')] $FILE removed: $?" >> $LOG
        fi

    fi
fi

Local Users crontab

*/1 * * * * /home/rgeorgia/bin/deploy.sh