[evlatests] Re: EVLA tests, Aug 22 2005

[Rich Moeser]

Barry Clark wrote:
>>>When I realized that Rich was no longer working, I asked the
>>>operator to abort the script they were running so that I could
>>>do other work.  When I started a script to look at 3C273 I found
>>>that the antenna was still getting commands to go somewhere else.
>>>These extra commands only went away when I asked to operator
>>>to kill the process in which Rich's executor was running.  It
>>>appears that there are still problems in getting the whole thing 
>>>to shut down cleanly.
>>
>>That's right, we ran into the same problem this morning during operator 
>>test time. When a user sends a request to "abort" a script the executor 
>>servlet sends a "halt" message to Barry's executor. The executor is 
>>written such that the script will not actually abort until the next 
>>source change which could be seconds, minutes or hours away. Until this 
>>is corrected it will continue to be a problem. Also, as Pat mentioned in 
>>her email, we found that the mib was generating acu commands even when 
>>the file was aborted and the executor stopped.
>>
> 
> That has been, theoretically, fixed.  We need to have a closer look at 
> what's happening.  And yes, the MIB is supposed to do that for five minutes.
> 
Is there a way to get the MIB to stop doing that without having to wait 
for it to finish?