Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Eric Norum <[email protected]> · Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:42:40 -0800

The system command was made optional since (a) it's not available on vxWorks and RTEMS and (b) the developers felt that it had all sorts of possibilities for causing strange behaviour, especially for new EPICS developers/users.

On Dec 19, 2012, at 8:32 AM, "J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/19/12 10:12 AM, Mark Rivers wrote:
>> When I build Linux IOCs with 3.14.12.2 I don't see the "system" command with "help", and it gives me an error if I type it:
>> 
>> epics> help system
>> 
>> epics> system ls
>> Command system not found.
> 
> Hi, Mark.
> 
> Hmm...same for me.
> 
> I see that EPICS Base builds system.dbd.  Including this in my IOC makes
> the "system" command available.  So, it would seem that either
> system.dbd should be included in base.dbd, or the documentation needs to
> be updated to state that the "system" command is only available if
> system.dbd is included in the IOC.
> 
> Lewis

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System