how to kill a python script running in gateway?

Question

I am new Digi python programming , I have following question about python script ..

Please help me

1. I have upload a python script with web browser to gateway , and runnning it with telnet command, python ***.py, But this script file is a while loop that run forever, if I want to kill it for modify , what shoud I do ? Using another telnet
connect to the gateway with kill command ?

2. is there a vi editor inside the gateway ? , when I using
telnet , I can not use vi in this box

Answer 1

1. There is not a way built into the system to kill scripts that are running. However, for debugging purposes at least, it's usually not to hard to build into the script itself a way to cause it to exit. What some of the demo apps do is place listen socket on a port, and cause the script to exit if they receive a connection on that port. Certainly not something that you want to leave in a final product, but adequate for testing.

2. There is no editor in the box. You'll have to edit your scripts on another machine and then upload them.

Answer 2

On the X4 under Management/Connections each excuting python script shows up as an active system connection. The UI provides a mechanism to select one and delete it however I have not had any success with this.

Either I am not using this correctly or there is a bug in the GW software.

Answer 3

>>What some of the demo apps do is place listen socket on a port, and cause the script to exit

Hi GigiGuy42,
Could you post some demo code for this ?! Or where I can get it ?!

Thank you

Answer 4

Hi,

http://www.digi.com/wiki/developer/index.php/TCP_to_Zigbee_Dynamic_Name_Mapping#Quit_socket_in_read_list

http://www.digi.com/wiki/developer/index.php/Card_Swipe_Demo#Main_loop:_Quit_socket_reading

The previous two examples show how you can use a listening socket to terminate an application when it receives a connection at a particular port.

I attached a simple example that demonstrates one way of doing it. The attached script has a loop that does a print out to the console until a socket connection is opened on port 32000.

Chris

Answer 5

Python threads are listed for informational purposes. They can not be killed with either the "kill" CLI command or via the connection management in the webUI.