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procServ

A wrapper to start arbitrary interactive commands in the background, with telnet access to stdin/stdout.

Build and Release Ecosystem

Sources

The procServ upstream repository is on GitHub.

Distribution tars are also available through SourceForge.

Dependencies

• asciidoc (package: asciidoc), to create documentation in different formats (man, pdf, html)
  NOTE: The distribution tar contains the doc in all available formats, so you don't need asciidoc to make and install procServ.

• libtelnet (package: libtelnet)
  NOTE: The distribution tar contains the libtelnet sources, so it will be compiled into procServ automatically, if not found.

Continuous Integration

Automated builds are provided by CloudBees, Travis and AppVeyor.

Linux Packages

procServ is part of official Linux distributions:

• Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install procserv
• Fedora/RHEL: yum install procServ

The source repository also contains the packaging extras. These are not part of the distribution tar.

Building procServ

Building with the EPICS Build System

1. Unpack procServ at the appropriate place within your EPICS structure.
2. Inside that directory, run ./configure --with-epics-top=TOP where TOP is the relative path to the EPICS TOP directory.
   (For a structure created with epicsMakeBaseExt.pl, the appropriate place for the procServ subdir would be under TOP/src, with ../.. being the relative path to specify to configure - which is the default.)
3. Build your EPICS structure.

Building from the procServ Source Repository

Requires autoconf >=2.61, automake >= 1.10
Optional asciidoc >= 8.4, FOP >= 0.95, xsltproc >= 1.1.24

$ git clone https://github.com/ralphlange/procServ.git
$ cd procserv
$ make
$ ./configure --enable-doc
$ make

Note: When building from the repository you must explicitly use --enable-doc or --disable-doc. Omitting this option assumes the distribution behaviour, that the documentation should be installed, but doesn't need to be built.

Building on Cygwin/Windows

In general,

sh configure
make

should be enough. If you have autoconf and automake packages, then for a really clean build type

sh autoreconf -fi
sh configure
make distclean
make

If you plan to control procServ from a non-localhost address, you will need to use

sh configure --enable-access-from-anywhere

as the configure step.

The executable is also available for download on SourceForge.

Using procServ

Running EPICS IOCs as Services on Unix

Michael Davidsaver has created SysV-style rc scripts to configure and run EPICS IOCs using procServ.

You can look at the Debian package or at the upstream repository.

Using procServ on Cygwin/Windows

In the .bat file to launch procServ you should add

set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning

to suppress warnings about using windows style paths.

If you plan to control procServ from a non-localhost address, you will need to run it with --allow to allow remote access to the child console.

To run on a non-Cygwin Windows system, procServ only needs Cygwin1.dll, e.g. in the same directory as the executable.

Using Windows style paths ('\' delimiter) in arguments to procServ is usually OK and suggested under command.com. If you have problems try replacing them with Cygwin syntax, i.e. "/cygdrive/c/my/path" rather than "C:\my\path".

Under command.com, the caret sign '^' has to be escaped using '^^'.

If you wish to run a .bat file rather than an executable as child under procServ, you should use something along the lines of

%ComSpec% /c runIOC.bat st.cmd

as arguments to procServ to launch your .bat file.

Enjoy!