 21 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd history display updates
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> You misspelled one ODB entry:
> Line 9014:
> sprintf(str, "/History/Display/%s/Label", path);
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21 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, potential memory corruption in odb,c:extract_key()
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> It looks like ODB function extract_key() will overwrite the array pointed to by "key_name" if given an odb
> path with very long names (as seems to happen when redirection explodes in the Safari web browser, via
> db_get_value(TRUE) via mhttpd "start program" button). All callers of this function seem to provide 256
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27 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, NEED_SHLIB=1 is broken
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--- Makefile (revision 4129)
+++ Makefile (working copy)
- $(LIB_DIR)/mxml.o $(LIB_DIR)/cnaf_callback.o \
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27 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, CAMAC register_cnaf_callback() - removed from libmidas
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> > Affected files:
> > Makefile (add cnaf_callback.o)
> That's a good idea.
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 27 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd: cannot attach history to elog
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From "history" pages, the "create elog" button stopped working - it takes us to the elog entry form, but
then, the "submit" button does not create any elog entries, instead dumps us into an invalid history
display. This is using the internal elog.
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28 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd: cannot attach history to elog
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> From "history" pages, the "create elog" button stopped working - it takes us to the elog entry form, but
> then, the "submit" button does not create any elog entries, instead dumps us into an invalid history
> display. This is using the internal elog.
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07 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, RFC- ACLs for midas rpc, mserver, mhttpd access
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The mhttpd host-based access control list as used by ALPHA at CERN is now committed to
SVN (revision 4135).
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10 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, New Makefile for building MIDAS
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> I rewrote the Makefile for MIDAS in order to make it tidy.
Not that the current Makefile is too pretty (I have seen worse), but it works and it is fairly compact for a project of
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10 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, RFC- ACLs for midas rpc, mserver, mhttpd access
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> While your "positive list" will certainly work, it is much more inflexible than a more
> general hosts.allow/hosts.deny with wildcards. Assume some experiment decides it wants to
> be controlled from all inside CERN. With hosts.allow/deny you could do
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12 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, New Makefile for building MIDAS
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> > Most experience with autoconf/automake is all negative. The promise was "never debug your Makefile ever
> > again!", delivered was "debug the configure script instead!".
>
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23 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Per-variable history implementation in the mlogger
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The changes to mlogger implementing per-variable history have been committed to
svn. Revision 4145.
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23 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Per-variable history implementation in the mlogger
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> The changes to mlogger implementing per-variable history have been committed to
> svn. Revision 4145.
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23 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, History SQL database poll: MySQL, PgSQL, ODBC?
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I would like to hear from potential users on which SQL database would be
preferable for storage of MIDAS history data.
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02 Apr 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, add "const" attributes to db_xxx() functions
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Now that we use more and more C++, lack of "const" attribute on most midas functions is causing some
problems. I am now ready to commit changes to midas.h and odb.c that add the const attributes to ODB
access functions db_xxx(), i.e.
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02 Apr 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, add "const" attributes to db_xxx() functions
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Now that we use more and more C++, lack of "const" attribute on most midas functions is causing some
problems. I am now ready to commit changes to midas.h and odb.c that add the const attributes to ODB
access functions db_xxx(), i.e.
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03 Apr 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, add "const" attributes to db_xxx() functions
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> > I am now ready to commit changes to midas.h and odb.c that add the const attributes to ODB
> > access functions db_xxx(), i.e.
> > INT db_rename_key(HNDLE hDB, HNDLE hKey, char *name)
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30 Apr 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, triumf elog updated to elog-2.7.3-1.i386.rpm
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FYI - in conjunction with replacement of ladd00.triumf.ca, this MIDAS ELOG has been updated to the latest
version 2.7.3-2058. Please report any problems or anomalies. K.O. |
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20 May 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, pending problems and fixes from triumf
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Here is the list of known problems I am aware of and of fixes not yet committed
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20 May 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, pending problems and fixes from triumf
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Here is the list of known problems I am aware of and of fixes not yet committed
to midas svn:
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28 May 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Roll-back for history sytem added
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> > But to make things more interesting we had another history outage this week...
> > Anyhow, I now have a patch to allow hs_read() to "skip the bad spots" in history files.
>
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