Well, there I was, eating Thanksgiving dinner, when suddenly, it hit me (no, not indigestion). I can write a simple program that parses out the latest "Status" from the most recent logbook file -- a relatively easy task, since it's a text file. This solution avoids having to execute a shell command at all. GOOOOOOAAAAAAL!!! 
As always, I appreciate all your help...can't thank you enough!
All the best,
Frank
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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Wow, having these color signal lamps really looke like a cute solution, made me laugh.
No, there is no other way than the Execute new thing. I have given up long time ago to use Windows services, because they are very hard to debug and very limited. So at our site everything runs under Linux.
Have you tried to specify the explicit path of your log file? Like Execute new = echo $Status > C:\Path\Last_status.log
Best,
Stefan
| Frank Baptista wrote: |
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Sorry -- I somehow selected the wrong OS in my original message. Asleep at the wheel again.
| Frank Baptista wrote: |
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Greetings!
We've been successfully running nearly a dozen separate logbooks on independent laptops -- all of them are running elogd as a Windows service. This works well, since I've also set up auto recovery options in the event that the service inadvertently stops.
Now, I have a need to place the value of an attribute of the latest log entry into a basic text file. Of course, this works just fine if I have launched elogd -x as a normal executable, using Execute new = echo $Status > Last_status.log in my CFG file. However, I would like to be able to do this using the Windows service which is running in the background.
Is there another way to write the value of an attribute into a separate file? If not, do I have to have a special build of ELOG in order to be able to enable the Windows service to execute shell commands? For the record, these logbooks are running on secure laptops that are isolated onto their own network, and the user is unable to edit the CFG file.
In case you're wondering about the reason for the separate text file -- I've written a separate program which illuminates one of 4 different color signal lamps (mounted on a test station), based on the latest "Status" of the test station. (Running, Idle, Broken, Other).
I appreciate any guidance here -- this is a "big deal" here, as one glance over the floor gives us an idea of what's running (or not).
Thanks!
Frank
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