fget.demon, fget.odemon \- fget daemons
are daemons for the 210 dataphone or spider.
They are designed to retrieve files
that have been requested by
from the Honeywell 6070 computer.
is the number of seconds for
to wait for files to appear from GRTS.
The default is 6 minutes.
is automatically initiated by
On systems with both a spider and a dataphone connection to
the Honeywell 6070 computer,
and is called automatically as a backup
when the spider connection is down.
On other systems, there is only one fget daemon,
use the spooling directory
to prevent two daemons from becoming active.
After the program has successfully set the lock,
it forks and the main path exits, thus
GRTS is interrogated for any output for the daemon's station-id.
interrogating GRTS every minute or so to see if any output has arrived.
All problems and successful transactions are recorded
file in the spooling directory.
(in the case of hardware or software malfunction),
it is necessary to first kill the old
This is done automatically when the system is brought up,
in case there are any jobs waiting to come over.