Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"David Dudley" <[email protected]> · Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:56:07 -0500

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And the Admin here is concerned about "...support..." because they
don't see a " ...commercial support contract...".

I get much better support from this list than I get from our contract
with Motorola or GE (and they cost us bundles).

Perhaps I should talk to them about sponsoring things more. ...don't
think there's a chance they'd do it...  ;-(

David

>>> Maren Purves <[email protected]> 8/12/2008 1:01 AM >>>
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, David Dudley wrote:

> Guys,
>
> Do scan times always have to be specified in seconds?
>
> I've got some fields that only need to be scanned once a minute,
once
> an hour, once every 4 hours, once every 12 hours, and once each night
at
> midnite (actually, 24 hours from the last scan).
>

David,

I'm on vacation, so rather short. This:

taskSpawn ("dhsDailyUpdate", 100, 8, 20000, dhsDailyUpdate)

(from an IOC's startup script) runs every day at 0:00 UT.

dhsDailyUpdate is a function in our FITS file writing device
support in this case, but I'd guess that it can be any non-private
function in any code that's loaded on the IOC.

(We had something similar before, you'll probably find it if
you search the tech-talk archive for taskSpawn)

HTH,
Aloha,
Maren

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System