How to run C-Gate under Linux with PCI

Hi

I have upgraded to 1.5, and copied the directoy across to my linux box. I am trying to follow the pdf attached, with one exception I have a CNI box not serial attached and can't find the network.txt file talked about. I am presuming (as the windows setup is working) is the setup information is in the .xml file!



Alex

 

You won't be able to configure it using file editing. Once you have it running you will need to connect to it via Toolkit. Since toolkit is running on a seperate machine (vm) you will need to configure your access.txt file for permissions. This is covered extensively elsewhere in the forums.

 

hi

Fixed up the access.txt. had a quick search on using toolkit remotely, but couldn't find anything (will have a second look), but having a look through the windows interface and it doesn't seem to be able to talk to a cgate server running on a different machine..

 

Hi

Another question, I have cgate starting at boot up of my linux box. What I have noticed is that my project that is used by homegate is loaded but not started automatically.

I restarted cgate
I start homegate project

and then I telneted into cgate server, ran a projects list and it had my project loaded which is good, but it had not started it. This could just be me not waiting long enough.

So my questions is should i append a config file to the start up line which loads and starts my project or will homegate there eventually

Alex

 

Thanks for the suggestions Daniel. Yes, I copied everything under C:\Clipsal\C-Gate2.

I've tried following your suggestions from start to finish (apart from installing commapi in /usr/lib, which I think was a mistake, right?), but still get a "Critical Server Exception". Could I confirm a couple of details (given that I am running an i586 version of linux on an AMD64 machine:

1. Should I be using the linux or solaris/sparc version of commapi (sounds a daft question, but the original instructions emphasised that you should use the solaris one)?

2. Do I still need RXTX from rxtx-bins, as well as commapi, and if so, again should I be using the linux-i386 or the solaris-sun version?

I have tried with or without RXTX and the linux and solaris versions of commapi without success. At the moment, I am using the linux versions, because it makes more sense for my machine. I have the following files installed:

comm.jar in /usr/java/jre/lib/ext/

RXTXcomm.jar in /usr/java/jre/lib/ext/

libLinuxSerialParallel.so, libLinuxSerialParallel_g.so, libSerial.so and libParallel.so in /usr/java/jre/lib/i386/

The whole of the filesystem from C:\Clipsal\C-Gate2 under /usr/bin/cgate2/

javax.comm.properties in /usr/bin/cgate2/ (with just the one uncommented line: "Driver=gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver")

"/usr/java/jre/bin/java -version" returns:

#java version "1.5.0_05"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_05-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_05-b05, mixed mode, sharing)

But /usr/java/jre/bin/java -jar cgate.jar gives me the following error (stripping out the crud):

java.io.IOException: Error instantiating class gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver

Has the line I should put in javax.comm.properties changed, so I am pointed at the wrong driver, am I using the wrong driver version, or have I omitted something that means the driver isn't available or is missing something it needs? I've tried changing the Driver to gnu.io.CommDriver or javax.comm.CommDriver, but to no avail - it just changes the class that fails to instantiate.

 

http://www.cbusforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=628

 

There should be no need to do anything else, Homegate should be able to do it all.

 

Hi

Thanks for the help.

I made a small change to the debian scripts to make it start in the cgate directory.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Starts and stops the c-gate server

CGATEDIR="/home/clipsal/C-Gate2"
CGATEJAR="$CGATEDIR/cgate.jar"
CGATEPID="$CGATEDIR/cgate.pid"
JAVARE="/usr/bin/java"
PARAMS="-jar -noverify $CGATEJAR"
LOCKFILE="$CGATEDIR/cgate.lock"

test -x "$CGATEJAR" || exit 0

startcgate() {
                echo -n "Starting C-Gate server:"
                cd $CGATEDIR
                start-stop-daemon --start \
                --make-pidfile --pidfile $CGATEPID \
                --chuid clipsal \
                --exec $JAVARE \
                --chdir $CGATEDIR \
                -- $PARAMS &
                echo "."
}

stopcgate() {
                echo -n "Stopping C-Gate server:"
                start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
                --pidfile $CGATEPID
                rm $CGATEPID
                rm $LOCKFILE
                echo "."
}

case "$1" in
        start)
                startcgate
                ;;
        stop)
                stopcgate
                ;;
        restart)
                stopcgate
                startcgate
                ;;
        *)
                echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/cgate (start|stop|restart)"
                exit 1
                ;;
esac

exit 0

Plus for those who want to find out how to admin a remote repository, open the toolkit, then file close repositroy, file open remote repository

 

My problem I had limit messages to the last month for the forum's couldn't find anything

 

Aaarr.... you wouldn't be the first to get caught by that, have done it myself.

 

I have been struggling and failed to set up C-Gate on my linux server also. I also receive the "Error instantiating class" error. bgprior, did you manage to get this issue resolved? Can anyone else help out?