 01 Oct 2025, Nick Hastings, Forum, struct size mismatch of alarms
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> So I started our DAQ with an updated midas, after ca. 6 months+.
Would be worthwhile mentioning the git commit hash or tag you are using.
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01 Oct 2025, Nick Hastings, Forum, struct size mismatch of alarms
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Just to be clear, it seems that your "EPICS Frontend" was either not recompiled against the new midas yet or the old binary is being run, but "SC Frontend"
is using the new midas.
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02 Oct 2025, Stefan Ritt, Forum, struct size mismatch of alarms
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Sorry to intervene there, but the FEs are usually compiled against libmidas.a . Therefore you have to compile midas, usually do a "make install" to update
the libmidas.a/so, then recompile the FEs. You probably forgot the "make install".
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02 Oct 2025, Frederik Wauters, Forum, struct size mismatch of alarms
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> Sorry to intervene there, but the FEs are usually compiled against libmidas.a . Therefore you have to compile midas, usually do a "make install" to update
the libmidas.a/so, then recompile the FEs. You probably forgot the "make install".
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 19 Nov 2025, Stefan Mathis, Forum, Control external process from inside MIDAS
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Dear all,
I want to control (start / stop / monitor its stdout and stderr) an external process (systemd / EPICS IOC shell script) from within MIDAS.
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19 Nov 2025, Nick Hastings, Forum, Control external process from inside MIDAS
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Hi,
what you describe is exactly how I normally run mhttpd, mlogger, mserver and some other
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20 Nov 2025, Stefan Mathis, Forum, Control external process from inside MIDAS
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Thanks a lot,
Nick. Regarding the messages: Zaher showed me that it is possible to simply place a custom log file generated by the systemd next to midas.log - then it |
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20 Nov 2025, Nick Hastings, Forum, Control external process from inside MIDAS
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Hi,
> Nick. Regarding the messages: Zaher showed me that it is possible to simply place
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20 Nov 2025, Stefan Mathis, Forum, Control external process from inside MIDAS
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Hi,
unfortunately I don't have a documentation link to the feature, I just know that it works on my machine ;-) The general idea is that you place a custom |
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24 Nov 2025, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Control external process from inside MIDAS
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Dear all,
Stefan wants to run an external EPICS driver process as a detached process and somehow "glue" it to midas to control it. Actually a
similar requirement led to the development of MIDAS in the '90s. We had too many configuration files lying around, to many process to control and interact |
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27 Nov 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Control external process from inside MIDAS
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> Rather than investing time to re-invent the wheel here, better try to modify your EPICS driver process to
become a midas process.
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09 Jan 2026, Stefan Ritt, Forum, MIDAS installation 
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Since we have no many RaspberryPi based control systems running at our lab with midas, I want to
streamline the midas installation, such that a non-expert can install it on these devices.
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10 Jan 2026, Marius Koeppel, Forum, MIDAS installation
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Dear Stefan,
That’s a great idea. For a private home automation project using a Raspberry Pi Zero, I used the
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13 Jan 2026, Stefan Ritt, Forum, MIDAS installation
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Thanks for your feedback. I reworked the installation script, and now also called it "install.sh" since it includes also the git clone. I modeled it after
homebrew a mit (https://brew.sh). This means you can now run the script on a prison linux system with:
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13 Jan 2026, Stefan Ritt, Forum, MIDAS installation
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I put the documentation under
https://daq00.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php/Install_Script
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, db_paste: found string exceeding MAX_STRING_LENGTH
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I am updating TWIST to the latest MIDAS and when I load a saved .odb file, I get
these messages. Their text ought to say where and what strings it does not like.
K.O.
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13 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, db_paste: found string exceeding MAX_STRING_LENGTH
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Can you attach
/twist/data_onl/current/run17548.odb
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, silly odbedit "rename Display xxx/yyy"
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odbedit command "rename Display xxx/yyy" creates a key named "xxx/yyy" (yes,
with a slash in the name) and this key cannot be deleted or renamed...
K.O. |
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13 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, silly odbedit "rename Display xxx/yyy"
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> odbedit command "rename Display xxx/yyy" creates a key named "xxx/yyy" (yes,
> with a slash in the name) and this key cannot be deleted or renamed...
> K.O.
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
will add information as I figure things out. K.O. |