man8/DEWtask

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Name

DEWtask - Dew meter I/O service

Synopsis

DEWtask <argument list>

Description

Serial I/O service for a Dew meter.

The program expects to find one refname HumidR under the label.

Arguments

Argument processing is done using Unix long argument syntax

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

--dbman_host <hn>
The host where dbman is running. This is optional, and will default to localhost or the current value of the DBMAN_HOST environment variable.
--local <iopath>
Sets the local device path to connect to when running locally. The local or remote mode must be specified
--remote <host>,<port>
The remot host and port to connect to when running remotely. The remote or local mode must be specified.
--label <label>
A label from the database. A label must be specified.
--help

Prints a help message detailing program usage and the current Accelnet version.

I/O polling rates

Polling is normally performed at 1Hz. Fast polling is not supported.

Examples

DEWtask --dbman_host csdev1 --local /dev/com2 --label DEW TK-1
DEWtask --dbman_host csdev1 --remote csdev11,ETSraw1 --label DEW TK-1

Note that the label will need to be quoted for the shell to treat it as a single argument.

Manual page revision

$Id: DEWtask.8,v 1.4 2007/07/17 15:49:15 kitchen Exp $


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