Reports until 08:28, Wednesday 29 May 2024
H1 SQZ (CDS)
camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:28, Wednesday 29 May 2024 - last comment - 12:21, Thursday 30 May 2024(78111)
SQZ ASC clear history/offload scripts ran when I logged in

As I logged in this morning, the  SQZ ASC and FC ASC offload and graceful clear history scripts that I  ran and left open yesterday (whoops) reran. 15:16UTC. Before I could save sdf diffs, we went though DOWN SDF revert. There was nothing in SQZ ASC, but FC ASC got cleared. As squeezing hasn't been in a good alignment over the last 12 hours, this doesn't really matter. But if  we were in observing it would have knocked us out.

Reminder to close scripts once used. CDS is there a way we can disable this from happening?

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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 12:21, Thursday 30 May 2024 (78147)
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Currently these scripts are called from medm via command 'xterm -g 80x15 -hold -e python3 clear_FC_ASC.py &' or simular 

After speaking with Dave and Joanthan there's two things to be done to avoid this in future:

  • When logging out, un-select "Save session for future logins" and shouldn't be reopened. 
  • We should not use the -hold option from the medm as this keeps the window perminatly open. If we want the xterm to stay open long enough to read any error text, but for it to eventually close itself, we should could tack an extra sleep on the end of the python script. e.g.
    • In the medm's .xml file, remove '-hold'
    • Add the following to the end of our scripts, with a sleep timer long enough to read/record the terminal output:

print("done")

time.sleep(60)

sys.exit(0)