 31 Jul 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, Improvement of custom pages 
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Even more improvements have been implemented into custom pages recently, containing a complete JavaScript library for ODB communication. This JavaScript
library relies on certain new commands built into mhttpd, and is therefore hardcoded into mhttpd. It can be seen by entering
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 17 Sep 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, New flag for auto restart
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A new ODB flag has been introduced. When the logger is configured for automatic
stop and restart (/Logger/Auto restart = y), the restart delay was hard-wired
to 20 sec., which might be too long or short for some experiments. Therefore a
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18 Sep 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, Potential problems in multi-threaded slow control front-end
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We had recently some problems at our experiment which I would like to share
with the community. This affects however only experiments which have a slow
control front-end in multi-threaded mode.
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19 Sep 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, Lazylogger logging changed
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I modified the logging behavior of lazylogger. Originally, it was writing
messages (run copied, removed, ...) both into midas.log and
lazy_log_update.log. Since we have many files, it kind of clutters up the
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11 Oct 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, mhttpd "messages" broken
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> mhttpd "messages" page stopped working after svn revision 4327 because of uninitialized variable
> "filename2" in midas.c:cm_message_retrieve(). Attached patch fixes the problem for me.
> K.O.
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13 Oct 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, mhttpd multi-experiment support removed
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Previously, one mhttpd server could sever several experiments at the same time.
This caused however sometimes problems and was hard to maintain. Starting from
SVN revision 4348, I removed the multi-experiment support, which I believe is
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18 Oct 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, mlogger async transitions, etc
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> I suspect mlogger uses ASYNC transactions exactly to avoid
> this type of deadlock (mlogger used ASYNC transactions since svn revision 2, the
> beginning of time).
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22 Oct 2008, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Mixed CAMAC/VME frontend, SIS3100
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> Dear MIDAS-addicts,
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> I would like to hear your opinion on this:
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28 Oct 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Inconsistent handling of odb and evet buffer timeouts
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> In midas.c there are several places where client last activity time stamps are checked against the
> watchdog timeout and the clients are declared dead if they fail to update their activity time stamps.
> ODB time stamps and data buffer time stamps appear to be handled in a similar manner.
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28 Oct 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, strange output from "odbedit cleanup"
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> When I run odbedit remotely (odbedit -h ladd09), the "cleanup" command unexpectedly produces the
> output of the "sor" command (sure enough, there is a call to db_get_open_records() there), but when I run
> it locally, I do not get this output (but db_get_open_records() is still called). Strange. K.O.
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28 Oct 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, mscb timeouts and retries
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> A new set of functions was added to mscb.h to adjust mscb timeouts and retries to better match specific
> applications:
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29 Oct 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, custom web pages: customscript buttons and start/stop buttons generate errors
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To fix this problem, do the following:
- Update to the current SVN revision 4368 of mhttpd.c
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09 Nov 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, bool values in "/custom/images/my_image.gif/labels/src" seem to lose their format string
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> Not sure if this is a bug or a feature:
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> Writing a boolean label on an image seems to produce rather strange behaviour.
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09 Nov 2008, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, <odb ... edit=1> buttons and javascript
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> When writing custom webpages, it would be nice to be able to write code such as
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> <odb src="/Equipment/TITAN_ACQ/ppg cycle/trans3/time offset (ms)" edit=1>
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09 Nov 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, custom web pages: customscript buttons and start/stop buttons generate errors
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> Thanks Stefan.
> Your fix works nicely with the start/stop buttons not returning to the same or to a
> different web page.
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20 Nov 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, Recommended platform for running MIDAS
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> Dear All,
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> Is there any recommended platforms for running MIDAS? Have anyone encountered
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26 Nov 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, Send email alert in alarm system
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> We have a temperature/humidity sensor in MIDAS now and will add a liquid level
> sensor to MIDAS soon. We want the operators to get alerted ASAP when the
> laboratory environment or the liquid level reached some critical levels. Can
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01 Dec 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, Fix ss_file_size() on 32-bit Linux
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> I also changed ss_file_size(), ss_disk_size() and ss_disk_free() to return -1 if
> the system call returns an error. I also added a test program
> utils/test_ss_file_size.c.
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02 Dec 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, Fix ss_file_size() on 32-bit Linux
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> I now fixed this problem by using the stat64() system call for "#ifdef OS_LINUX".
That does not work if _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE is not defined. In that case, the compiler
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02 Dec 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, Fix ss_file_size() on 32-bit Linux
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[quote="K.O."]This does not work (observe the typoe in the #ifdef).[/quote]
Sorry for that, I fixed and committed it.
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