Restarting Mimir Status Web Page

  1. VPN into Lowell
  2. Log into yggdrasil as camera
  3. Verify that VNC is running:
    1. ps –ef | grep Xvnc
    2. if not, restart it:
      1. /home/camera/.vnc/xstartup
  4. Open an instance of VNC and connect to yggdrasil:5901 (with camera's password)
  5. Check that temper is running:
    1. ps –ef | grep temper
    2. If not, restart it:
      1. First, check the lock file, delete it if present:
        1. rm /tmp/temper.lock
      2. /home/camera/start.temper
  6. Check if mimirwww is running in either VM or non-VM form:
    1. ps –ef | grep IDL
  7. If running, you may kill the instance
    1. kill -9 job-number (where job-number is reported by the ps command)
  8. Delete the files making up the plots and status web page
    1. cd /home/camera/Web/status/wwwfiles
    2. rm *.png
    3. rm *.html
  9. Restart the mimirwww web page creator and server:
    1. /home/camera/Web/bin/mimirwww
    2. Or, restart the VM version if the non-VM isn't working
      1. /home/camera/Web/bin/mimirVMwww
  10. Check that the web page creator is running
    1. ps –ef | grep IDL
    2. there should be one instance running