Home server system -- a very basic remote control for GNU/Linux (and partially Windows) systems.

Installation

Clone this repo on all the devices you need, run cargo build --release, and you will have two executables in target folder -- client and server.

Usage

In order to use this programm, you need to have at least one config file for your server named server_commands.json. Config is a JSON-file, which describes commands that the server can do, a small example can be found in the repo. There are 3 main types of commands:

1. Exec -- execute a single command with given parameters, i. e. echo Hello, i3lock -i /home/user/path/to/picture.png, etc.
2. Sync -- the main draw of this programm -- sync files between to machines in 2 folders. For example, you have a study folder on your main PC, and on your laptop, and you want update all of the files on PC with files from laptop. In order for this to work, you will need an aditional config file for your client. The sync works as follows -- it checks, which file is newer, and replaces the older one, while keeping all the folder structure, i.e. if PC has file 1.txt which is newer than same file on laptop, and laptop has 2.txt which is newer than same file on PC, after the sync both machines will have newer versions of the respectable files.
3. Send -- send file to another machine, for a single file transfer.

Configs need to be in the same folder as executables.

Config for client needs to be named client_config.json.

Config examples for sync

Server

"sync_study": {
        "name": "Sync \"study\" directory",
        "brief": "Syncs files in directories on client and server",
        "command" : "echo",
        "args" : ["/home/user/storage/path"],
        "command_type" : "Sync"
    }

Client

{
    "sync_study" : "/home/another_user/another_storage/path"
}

"command" here is not important, main thing is to have a single path in args array, and have a path to directory with same name in client config.