 07 Feb 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, History panels in custom pages 
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A new tag has been implemented to display history panels in custom pages, integrated in the
new custom page design from 2017. The full documentation can be found at
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 20 Feb 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, odb needs protection against ctrl-c
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Not sure if you realized, but there is a two-stage Ctrl-C handling inside midas. The first time you hit ctrl-c, the handler just sets a flag for the main
event loop, so that the program can gracefully exit without trouble. This is
done inside cm_ctrlc_handler(), which sets _ctrlc_pressed true if called. Then cm_yield() tests this flag and returns RPC_SHUTDOWN if so. I agree not very |
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20 Feb 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, odb needs protection against ctrl-c
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Have you read what I wrote? The current ctrl-c handler just sets the _ctrlc_pressed flag. It might be that some programs do not correctly interprete the
return of cm_yield(), certainly the frontend does it correctly. On the SECOND ctrl-c, the program gets
(internally) hard aborted, equivalent to calling abort(). Not sure if the code works everywhere, I see now that cm_yield(() should maybe return SS_ABORT |
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04 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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Parsing all URL in mhttpd to prevent /etc/passwd etc. to be returned is tricky, because people can use escape sequences etc. Therefore I think it is much
better to restrict file access
on the file system level when opening a file. The only escape there one could have is "..", which can be tested easily.
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04 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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Sounds reasonable to me.
Stefan
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05 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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First, I did not propose to give up the /Custom tree in the ODB, sorry for the misunderstanding. We still need it in order to display the menu with the
custom pages at the left side navigation bar. In principle all can stay like it is, except we remove /Custom/Path and rewrite the file server to restrict
it only
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05 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> - mhttpd cannot serve /etc/passwd by default as "/" is forbidden in file names added to /Custom/Path.
You do this with a simple
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05 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> > > - mhttpd cannot serve /etc/passwd by default as "/" is forbidden in file names added to /Custom/Path.
> > You do this with a simple
> > if (custom_path == "/")
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05 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Best MIDAS branch/version for "production"
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> Hmm... for most experiments, we do not "install" midas. I should probably remove the "install" target from the Makefile.
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05 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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I stop the discussion here because it goes in circles. We can't convince each others, so somebody has to give up, and that's me.
> We have several large installations at TRIUMF that use the old-style custom pages - MUSR, BNMR/BNQR, TITAN (and more?) -
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05 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Gyrations of custom pages and ODB /Custom/Path
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> The biggest problem so far we have seen is with some pages having incorrect form submission
> settings - some forms use the wrong form "action" attribute, which worked before, we do not know
> why, and definitely does not work now. This is not something that we can fix on the midas side.
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12 Mar 2019, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Run length
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> Is there a way to start the short run exactly 1 h after the starting
> of the previous short run?
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28 May 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, MIDAS switching to Cmake
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Great news! I got convinced by some colleagues to switch midas to Cmake. After spending about one day, I wrote some initial CMakeLists.txt file and am so
excited about the advantages that I regret
not having done this step much earlier. Here is some information:
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28 May 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, MIDAS switching to Cmake
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> > - After successful compilation, all programs and libraries are in the "build" directory
> >
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29 May 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, MIDAS switching to Cmake
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> > > - After successful compilation, all programs and libraries are in the "build" directory
> > >
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31 May 2019, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Replacing MIDAS status page with custom status page
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> Replacing the MIDAS status page with a custom status page documented at
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> https://midas.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php/Custom_Page_Features#Replace_Status_Page_by_a_Custom_page
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11 Jun 2019, Stefan Ritt, Release, bin and lib symlinks, mxml-2019-03-a, midas-2019-03-h
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> The latest version of MIDAS puts libraries and executables in $MIDASSYS/lib and bin (the "linux" part of pathname is removed).
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> Some packages (rootana) have been already changed to use this new scheme and they will not build against older versions of midas.
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17 Jun 2019, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, removed modbset() from mhttpd.js
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I disagree. The modbset() function is used in many custom pages at PSI because people are tired of typing mjsonrpc_db_paste([path],[value]) vs. modbset(path,
value). We need to keep
modbset() which is well documented at
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17 Jun 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, MIDAS switching to Cmake
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> - it looks like cmake does not like building variant executables and object files, i.e. "with ROOT" and "without ROOT".
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> I need to set "-DHAVE_ROOT" for building "with ROOT" and unset it via remove_definitions() for building "without ROOT",
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17 Jun 2019, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, removed modbset() from mhttpd.js
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A ladder of promise event handlers is certainly one possibility to enforce the order of ODB writes, but I wonder if we could so something simpler:
- modbset creates an object remembering the status of the RPC request. Initially, this object receives the status "open request"
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