After some email consult with Jamie, I got cdsutils working again by reverting to v238. The newest versions are not compatible with our python 2.6 on Ubuntu 10. And our Ubuntu 12 machines do not have NDS2 clients that work yet.

The read/write commands work at the moment, but the NDS based ones don't yet work on pianosa due to some NDSSERVER flag/setup issue maybe, Jamie ??

controls@pianosa|~ > z

usage: cdsutils <cmd> <args>

Advanced LIGO Control Room Utilites

Available commands:

    read         read EPICS channel value

  write        write EPICS channel value

  switch       switch buttons in standard LIGO filter module

  avg          average one or more NDS channels for a specified amount of seconds

  servo        servos channel with a simple integrator (pole at zero)

  trigservo    servos channel with a simple integrator (pole at zero)

  version      print version info and exit

  help         this help

Add '-h' after individual commands for command help.

controls@pianosa|~ > z read C1:LSC-DARM_GAIN

0.0

controls@pianosa|~ 2> z avg 3 C1:IOO-MC_F

Error in write(): Connection refused

Error in write(): Connection refused

NDSSERVER variable incorrectly defined, or no NDS servers available.

controls@pianosa|~ 1> echo $NDSSERVER

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