The hlog program by Josef "Jeff" Sipek sparked my interest as a text-only
(console) logging solution. It offers contesting definitions built in lua
which is a potential path for a contesting specification that I have been
working on.
- Josef "Jeff" Sipek home-page
- Contesting Specification
This repository shows the steps I used to compile the application inside a Docker container. Some of the documentation was not (quite) complete and there were a few bugs to deal with. I spent about a day in total making this work, but could not have achieved this without the assistance of Jeff who fixed a few issues.
To use this tool, you can build it with docker after cloning this repo:
docker build -t local/hlog .
The container can launch either hlog or hlog-contest, depending on an
optional parameter.
You can supply one optional parameter after the name of the container.
If you supply no parameters, the executable launched is hlog. If you specify
precisely one parameter, the name of the contest, the executable launched is
hlog-contest.
docker run --rm -v"$(pwd)":"$(pwd)" -w"$(pwd)" -it local/hlog:latest
docker run --rm -v"$(pwd)":"$(pwd)" -w"$(pwd)" -it local/hlog:latestcontest-name
hlog and hlog-contest require a data directory. If it does not exist in the
current directory, it is created before launch. You can edit this using the
instructions in the supplied README file. The syntax used is lua.
On first run the entry-point.sh script checks to see if a directory called
./hlog exists. If not, it populates it with the default settings from the
hlog initialisation script. After downloading the pota_parks.csv, cty.csv
and sota_summits.csv, it also copies the hlog supplied README file into
the same directory. Then it launches hlog.
On second run, after detecting the directory called ./hlog, it launches hlog.
It appears that to exit, you should use Control-C.
Use the information in the README file to configure your station.
Onno VK6FLAB cq@vk6flab.com