Re: status of procServControl

["Knap, Giles \(DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI\) via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Matt,

The procServControl at git at github.com:dls-controls/procServControl.git is up to date with our internal version. It is still used by most DLS IOCs.

The tags were missing from github but I have just pushed them. So, the history is now there (we migrated history to our internal GItLab from our subversion)

Cheers,

giles.

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Pearson, Matthew via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: 14 October 2022 19:24
To: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: RE: status of procServControl

 

Hi Mark,

 

Thanks, yes but that’s procServ and not procServControl. procServControl is an EPICS interface to procServ, in the form of a SNL program, to enable sending control characters to procServ.

 

We generally install procServ via the RPM that can be pulled from the Red Hat repositories.

 

Cheers,

Matt

 

From: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 2:08 PM
To: Pearson, Matthew <pearsonmr at ornl.gov>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: status of procServControl

 

I think it’s here:

 

hxxps://github.com/ralphlange/procServ

 

Mark

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Pearson, Matthew via Tech-talk
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 12:50 PM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: status of procServControl

 

 

Hi,

 

What’s the status of the procServControl module these days?

 

It used to be available at controls.diamond.ac.uk, as described here:

hxxps://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2015/msg00531.php

but it seems that website has gone, and the DLS software is now all on GitHub?

 

So there is this module:

hxxps://github.com/dls-controls/procServControl

but the history & release tags weren’t preserved (I guess because moving from subversion to git?)

 

And there is this version:

hxxps://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/EPICS-procServControl

which I suspect is fork from the original DLS one?

 

At the SNS we also have a modified local copy that is a slightly evolved version of the R1-2 release. We use it for all our soft IOCs, to provide an interface for software and scientific staff to start and stop IOCs.  I’m planning on making a change to it, which is why I was looking if there are upstream changes I should pull in first.

 

Is it widely used? Is there a similar alternative that other sites are using?

 

Cheers,

Matt

 

 

 

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