Rioboot – Perle Systems RIO 5500036-17 User Manual

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RIO Remote I/O System User Guide
RIO system commands under Solaris/Linux/LynxOS

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Chapter 5 RIO command line utilities

rioboot

Operating systems Available under: Solaris, Linux, and LynxOS.

Function

Boots the host cards and RTAs, to generate and apply rio.cf settings.

Syntax

rioboot [-c file] [-h] [-v] [-s]

rioboot [-c file] [-h] [-v] -u

rioboot [-c file] [-h] [-f] [-v] -w

rioboot [-c file] [-h] [-f] [-v] -a

Argument
descriptions

Examples

rioboot -f

boots the RIO driver, even if no

rio.cf

file exists. Typically this is used during

system installation or initialisation scripts.

rioboot -w

outputs the current configuration to stdout, typically redirected into a configuration

file such as

rio.cf

.

rioboot -u

updates the driver settings with any changes made to the

rio.cf

file.

Argument

Description

[-c file]

Specifies an alternate configuration file.

[-h]

Prints a usage message

[-v]

Reports any anomalies or errors to the standard error file
descriptor.

[-s]

Performs a syntax check on the configuration file.

-u

You can use the

rioboot -u

command to update the driver

with any changes that have been made to the configuration
file after the driver has been initialised.

[-f]

Forces the Driver to attempt to boot even if no configuration
file exists.

-w

You can use the

rioboot -w

command to output the current

configuration of the driver in the format of the configuration
file.

-a

Outputs the current configuration to stdout (same as -w),
but automatically allocates unassigned RTA system port
numbers.

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