 09 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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Starting from midas version 1.9.4 on, the environment variable 'MIDASSYS'
should be defined and point to the installation directory of midas. The
purpose of that is that add-on packages (like the upcoming ROME system) can
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 09 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> Starting from midas version 1.9.4 on, the environment variable 'MIDASSYS'
> should be defined and point to the installation directory of midas. The
> purpose of that is that add-on packages (like the upcoming ROME system) can
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09 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> Here's my suggestion
> MIDASSYS=/opt/midas-1.9.4 (for example)
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09 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> I guess we should follow the "standard" as much as possible. MIDASSYS was inspired by
> ROOTSYS. Now where do people usually install ROOT? Is it /opt/root-x.x.x or something
> else. Some years ago (when I did the last time some linux administration) optional
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09 Jul 2004, John M O'Donnell, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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For a long time the "de facto" standard was to spread a package around in many
directories under /usr/local. This proved to be a bad idea, as removing the
package
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12 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> With POSIX there is a written standard, which says that each pacakge goes in
> it's own
> directory under /opt. eg. /opt/midas. Each package gets to define it's own
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20 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> > Starting from midas version 1.9.4 on, the environment variable 'MIDASSYS' ...
> 2. What will the entire structure tree look like?
>
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21 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> Where should MIDAS be installed?
I personally don't have any preference, as long as it's in accordance with "the standard"
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14 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , future direction discussion?
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Hi,
I think that rather than spending too much time on where to
put files and how to define the environment - I am guilty of that myself.
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14 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , future directions discussion?
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Sorry the previous message got mangled:
Hi,
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14 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , future direction discussion?
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Have changed your entry as Non-HTML (easier to reply to...)
Here are some "initial" comments, by no means complete...
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15 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , future direction discussion?
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> > Are we ready for 2.0?
I disapprove of version number inflation. Why not go straight for midas version
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15 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Severe bug in 1.9.4
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Hello midas'ers,
Today I discovered a severe bug in the routine bm_check_buffers(), which
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09 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Version 1.9.4 released today
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Version 1.9.4 of midas has been released today. It is mainly a maintenance
update, for all the little things which have been fixed since the last
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21 Jun 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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Is the midas CVS server set-up so that I can pull the newest
version off the CVS server?
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21 Jun 2004, Pierre-André Amaudruz, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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> Is the midas CVS server set-up so that I can pull the newest
> version off the CVS server?
>
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22 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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> In the Midas doc under "Quick Start"
> http://midas.triumf.ca/doc/html/quickstart.html
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29 Jun 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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> Is the midas CVS server set-up so that I can pull the newest
> version off the CVS server?
>
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10 Mar 2004, Jan Wouters, , Creation of secondary Midas output file. 
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Dear Midas Team,
I have run into a problem with Midas and was wondering if you could explain what I
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10 Mar 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Creation of secondary Midas output file.
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Dear Jan,
I had a look at your code. You create a gPhysicsEventHeader array, fill it, and expect the
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11 Mar 2004, Renee Poutissou, , Creation of secondary Midas output file.
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Jan ,
Do you need to log this stage 1 output? If not, you would use the
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14 Jan 2004, Razvan Stefan Gornea, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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I am just starting to explore MIDAS, i.e. reading the manual and trying
some examples. For the moment I would like to make a simple frontend that
access a portable multimeter through RS-232 port. I think this could help
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14 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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There is some information at
http://midas.triumf.ca/doc/html/Internal.html#Slow_Control_system
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16 Jan 2004, Razvan Stefan Gornea, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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The multimeter device is indeed to simple to use MIDAS but I am just trying
it as a learning experience. The DAQ system to develop involves VME crates
and general purpose I/O boards. The slow control part, especially accessing
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17 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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> The result is strange because the get function is called all the time very
> fast (much faster then the 9 seconds as set in the equipment) and even
> before starting the run (I just put the flag RO_RUNNING).
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11 Aug 2003, Konstantin Olchanski, , Alarm on no ping?
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I want midas alarms to go off when I cannot ping arbitrary remote hosts. Is
there is easy/preferred way to do this? K.O. |
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18 Dec 2003, Stefan Ritt, , Alarm on no ping?
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> I want midas alarms to go off when I cannot ping arbitrary remote hosts. Is
> there is easy/preferred way to do this? K.O.
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27 Aug 2003, Pierre-André Amaudruz, , Operation under 1.9.3 with the analyzer
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1) Prior upgrading midas to 1.9.3, make sure you've saved your ODB in ASCII
format using "odbedit> save my_odb.odb", as the internal structure is
incompatible with previous version. You will be able to restore it once
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06 Jun 2003, Pierre-André Amaudruz, , Welcome
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Dear Midas users,
As you certainly aware, ELOG (Electronic Logbook) has been written
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