NIRC2 Startup and Shutdown Instructions  

  1. To startup the NIRC2 software type nirc2start.
  2. Before you shut off the electronics type nirc2stop.
To start or stop pieces of the software, use the "nirc2 function process" protocol. As an example, to stop the Aladdin server, you would type "nirc2 stop alad".

The functions are:

If only one copy of the software is allowed to be running, "start" will usually do the same thing as "restart," namely kill existing processes and start a new copy.

The processes are: 

    aladsim            Aladdin simulator
    all                All observing software (equivalent to "nirc2start")
    command            The command window
    dcssim             DCS simulator
    iod                IO daemon
    log                Log file
    mechanisms         Both the motor and IO daemons
    motord             Motor daemon
    motors             Both the motor and IO daemons
    nirc2exp           Exposure control GUI
    quicklook          IDL quicklook
    statusd            Status display
    tempd              Temperature display

The old, more complicated start up instructions (used prior to 28sep00) appear here.