man8/ACtask_v2

Name

ACtask_v2 - CAMAC DAC service

ACtask_v2 <argument list>

DAC I/O service for CAMAC.

This program supports Kinetic Systems KSC3112 and KSC3116 CAMAC modules.

ACtask_v2 registers with dbman as ACtask.

Argument processing is done using Unix long argument syntax

The values of all the parameters listed here (whether or not they were supplied on the command line) are printed on stderr when the program starts.

--dbman_host <hn>: The host where dbman is running. If this argument is not supplied the default is "localhost".
--dbman_name <rn>: Sets the name used by the program to register with dbman.
--dev <path>: The pathname of the device to open. If this argument is not supplied the default is "/dev/camac".
--drv <drv>: The driver key. If this argument is not supplied the default is "CAMAC".
--cmin <C>: The minimum crate number. If this argument is not supplied the default is "1".
--cmax <C>: The maximum crate number. If this argument is not supplied the default is "99"
--tagname_ctl: parameter name to use for task control.
--tagname_status: parameter name to use for reporting task status.
--show_tbl: Prints the contents of various tables to stderr.
--verbose=<level>: Print more information. If <level> is missing it defaults to 1.
--log_flag <logging>: If this argument has the value bad I/O transactions with bad status will be logged each time the status changes.
If this argument has the value all I/O transactions are logged each time the value OR the status changes.
--diag: Don’t close stdin and stdout, allows user to kill the program with SIGINT.
--persist: Run the program in persist mode.
--help: Prints a small help message with usage information.

#
# this example services crates 1 thru 4
# dbman is running on the same host
#
ACtask_v2 --dbman_host localhost --cmin 1 --cmax 4

$Id: ACtask_v2.8,v 1.1 2009/03/26 16:29:25 mcnamer Exp $