Ted Sled

Ya'll are killing me!! I want a RadiaCode so bad now. I sit with the mouse pointer hovering over the "Buy Now" button but so far sanity has prevailed and I have resisted. Can't say how much longer that's gonna last though.....

The batteries are made by RayOVac. They expired in 2018. They are otherwise unused. According to the manual printed in 1980, a set of batteries should last 60 hours. I got 43 days. Keep in mind this was made for the US Navy and in my experience, the military is always most conservative in their estimates and that 60 hours probably represents a "worst case" scenario. Still, that's a heck of a difference!! The AN/PDR27S I have had to be made sometime after 1969 as the LM108H op amp in it wasn't introduced...

Here's the logdb file from a multi day run using the Formula device and with the memory() variable enabled. A couple of notes: There is a spike in CPM in the middle of the db. That's me checking the beta detection with the beta shield open, not a sudden spike in background. This was done using the AudioDevice and the AN/PDR27S. At the very end of the file the CPM slowly drops. That corresponds with the batteries finally dying. That GC ran for 43 straight days continuously on a single set of D batteries....

Sadly, I can't read German so I don't really know what that web page says, but it kinda looks like a C++ function call or something. Here's the help output from taskkill. I don't see anything that would lead me to believe it can generate a SIGTERM. Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.2846] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\ted>taskkill /? TASKKILL [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]] { [/FI filter] [/PID processid | /IM imagename] } [/T] [/F] Description: This tool is...

But ullix, I have NO Linux machines. Windows doesn't have a kill command. I need to be able to send the SIGTERM=15 from within a Windows batch file. I can kill Python with the Windows command 'taskkill /IM python.exe' but it's not a clean shutdown of GeigerLog. LOL! "All I want for Christmas is to be able to shutdown GL clean and then restart it with a new db filename every day automatically". (helps if you sing it!)

Well, GeigerLog isn't a running process. Python is. Taskkill can take a PID or an "image name" which appears to be the name of the executable running. When I run the tasklist command, Python shows up; GeigerLog doesn't. I would prefer an orderly shutdown of GeigerLog for sure, but how do I send a SIGTERM from a batch file?

So a batch file something like this: taskkill /IM python.exe python geigerlog connect load -l %DATE%.logdb start Except the %DATE% doesn't actually create a file with today's day and date. I don't know enough to fix it, either. I'd have to include absolute path info, at least for the location of geigerlog. I could run this each night as a scheduled task at midnight.

Precisely what I was hoping you'd say. I can kill python with the taskkill command, then start GL with the autostart commands detailed in your manual. I'm trying to figure out how I could put together a batch file that I could then run as a scheduled task each night at midnight. One of the things I don't know how to do is the use the %DATE% environment variable when creating the new logfile. If I do echo %DATE% at a command prompt it returns the day and date. I just don't know how to use that to...