Make parameters steerable.

Introduce "verbose" parameter.

Announce to the portal by default.

Introduce parameter to announce only every n seconds.

Only announce every minute by default.

When calling system(), make sure that there are no shell meta
characters.


git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/CactusUtils/Formaline/trunk@37 83718e91-0e4f-0410-abf4-91180603181f

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/param.ccl b/param.ccl
index b66902d..2dbc368 100644
--- a/param.ccl
+++ b/param.ccl
@@ -3,24 +3,36 @@
 
 
 
-# Parameters for announcing meta information to the portal
-# (does not work yet properly)
+# Global parameters
 
-BOOLEAN announce_to_portal "Announce meta information to the portal"
+BOOLEAN verbose "Produce screen output" STEERABLE=always
 {
 } no
 
-STRING portal_hostname "Portal host name"
+REAL update_interval "Update interval for the meta information (in seconds)" STEERABLE=always
+{
+  0:* :: ""
+} 60.0
+
+
+
+# Parameters for announcing meta information to the portal
+
+BOOLEAN announce_to_portal "Announce meta information to the portal" STEERABLE=always
+{
+} yes
+
+STRING portal_hostname "Portal host name" STEERABLE=always
 {
   "" :: ""
 } "portal.cct.lsu.edu"
 
-INT portal_port "Portal port"
+INT portal_port "Portal port" STEERABLE=always
 {
   1:65535 :: ""
 } 9296
 
-STRING portal_username "User name on the portal"
+STRING portal_username "User name on the portal" STEERABLE=always
 {
   "" :: ""
 } ""
@@ -29,11 +41,11 @@ STRING portal_username "User name on the portal"
 
 # Parameters for storing meta information in a file
 
-BOOLEAN store_into_file "Store meta information in a file"
+BOOLEAN store_into_file "Store meta information in a file" STEERABLE=always
 {
 } yes
 
-STRING storage_filename "File name for meta information"
+STRING storage_filename "File name for meta information" STEERABLE=always
 {
   "" :: ""
 } "formaline-jar.txt"
@@ -42,11 +54,11 @@ STRING storage_filename "File name for meta information"
 
 # Parameters for storing the source tree in the executable
 
-BOOLEAN output_source "Output a tarball with the cactus source tree"
+BOOLEAN output_source "Output a tarball with the cactus source tree" STEERABLE=recover
 {
 } yes
 
-STRING output_source_subdirectory "Subdirectory, relative to IO::out_dir, for the Cactus source tarballs"
+STRING output_source_subdirectory "Subdirectory, relative to IO::out_dir, for the Cactus source tarballs" STEERABLE=recover
 {
   "" :: ""
 } "cactus-source"
@@ -55,12 +67,12 @@ STRING output_source_subdirectory "Subdirectory, relative to IO::out_dir, for th
 
 # Parameters for outputting Cactus variables
 
-STRING out_vars "Cactus variables that should be output"
+STRING out_vars "Cactus variables that should be output" STEERABLE=always
 {
   "" :: "space separated list of groups or variables"
 } ""
 
-STRING out_reductions "Reduction operators that should be applied to the output variables"
+STRING out_reductions "Reduction operators that should be applied to the output variables" STEERABLE=always
 {
   "" :: "space separated list of reduction operators"
 } "minimum maximum norm1 norm2 norm_inf sum"