Re: procServ soft IOC server - V2.3.0 released

[Steve Lewis <SALewis@llnl.gov>]

I finally got around to trying this out...it's amazing! 
Congratulations to Dave and Ralph.  Of course, I do have 2 small 
suggestions, since it has been more than a week  :-)

1. Add a flag (-a|--allow)" to allow non-'localhost' telnet activity. 
I know there are add-ons like conserver to package the procServ with 
ssh to enable one-stop shopping, but procServ is so straight-forward, 
I prefer to use it alone with just some shell aliases.  I can deal 
with the security issues on an isolated network--at least I want to 
set my own policy.

2. When you first invoke, say, "./st.cmd", you miss the output until 
you have time to invoke the telnet.  Of course, you can scroll back 
to see what you missed; or even use ^R to force a restart and watch 
from the beginning.  So what I am suggesting is a flag (-w|--watch) 
which invokes the telnet session early enough to see the initial 
command at work.


At 4:08 PM +0200 2008/06/05, Ralph Lange wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> procServ V2.3.0 has been released. (I seem to be on a weekly schedule ...)
>
> Changes:
>
>    * New "-c | --chdir <dir>" command line option to specify a
>      directory to cd to each time the child (softIOC) is restarted.
>      Nice if your production file structure relies on soft links for
>      versioning: now the IOC will re-solve the links and use the
>      current version when rebooting within procServ.
>    * Server won't exit if child can't cd or execute the command, just
>      keeps on retrying.
>
> For a more detailed description, see the documentation:
> http://www-csr.bessy.de/control/SoftDist/procServ/procServ-2.2.0/procServ.html
> Download it here: http://www-csr.bessy.de/control/SoftDist/procServ/
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph