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I suggest that you run the IOC daemon within a detached screen session. This is how we start our 'soft' IOCs here. It is useful in that it allows you to connect to the screen session and interact with the IOC console when needed. As has already been pointed out, this only seems to make sense under an OS such as Unix or similar. For our IOCs running on Linux, we use an xterm running on an X virtual frame buffer (Xvfb) to host the soft IOC. The xterm runs Gnu screen, which silently runs bash, which runs the IOC. This is all launched from rc.local at boot time, and can be done from a headless host. Later, one can attach to the Gnu screen session, and see what is happening, or enter iocshell commands. Under Gnu screen, one can even use the 'stuff' command to control and monitor the session to some extent. We have arranged a web interface that is capable of stopping and restarting the IOC using such a mechanism. The code in rc.local (could, maybe should be given it's own proper startup script) looks like this: #====================================< rc.local >========================================== SCREEN_EPICS="IBCS EPICS" # # We run the EPICS IOC inside of Gnu screen sessions, so # we can monitor them and send commands to their interactive shells. We need # a way to create a tty for them at boot time. The Xvfb provides a virtual X server # to support an xterm that can in turn support a bash shell. # echo "Launching X virtual framebuffer" Xvfb :1 -fbdir /tmp & # We really should do something more robust for this... echo "Snoozing while the virtual X server finds it's fonts..." sleep 10 export DISPLAY="localhost:1" echo "Starting EPICS IOC xterm/screen" xterm -e screen -S "$SCREEN_EPICS" su -c bash bomr & echo "Snoozing while bash initializes..." sleep 10 # # Q: So what is all this `echo -ne '\015'` stuff? # A: We are stuffing characters into a Gnu screen session, and # this is how we stuff a 'newline'
echo "Starting EPICS IOC" screen -S "$SCREEN_EPICS" -X stuff "cd /usr1/local/epics/appl/bacnet"`echo -ne '\015'` screen -S "$SCREEN_EPICS" -X stuff "./startup.ibcs"`echo -ne '\015'` # echo Done #================================================================================= We disable the bash 'exit' command to ruggedize the system against accidental termination through the Web interface. Sending 'exit' twice in a row will first exit the IOC, then exit bash, killing the entire Gnu screen session. On Jun 8, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Christophe Moins wrote:
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