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Subject: Re: sseq link problem on Linux
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:04:23 -0500
Hi Emma,

On Thursday 04 September 2008 13:46:58 Shepherd, EL (Emma) wrote:
>
> I recently encountered an interesting problem when moving an IOC from
> vxWorks to Linux (RedHat).  The database contains a number of sseq
> records with CP input links to pull across some data from another IOC.
> This happens whenever one of the links changes, but also when the IOC
> boots up for the first time.  This worked fine on vxWorks, but on Linux
> the links do not get updated when the IOC boots up.  It's not just an
> occasional failure, it just never worked.  I changed the sseq records to
> transforms and it now works fine.  In both cases I had PINI=YES.

Hmm, I would guess the the sseq record type is from synApps.  However assuming 
that it's just using a standard dbCa link, what does "dbcar '', 1" show from 
one of the Linux IOCs where the link is not being updated?  Does it list that 
record link as disconnected?

- Andrew
-- 
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