always enable error messages when loading protocol files

src/StreamEpics.cc

@@ -196,8 +196,12 @@ extern "C" long streamReload(char* recordname)
     dbCommon*   record;
     long status;
 
+    int oldStreamError = streamError;
+    streamError = 1;
+
     if(!pdbbase) {
         error("No database has been loaded\n");
+        streamError = oldStreamError;
         return ERROR;
     }
     debug("streamReload(%s)\n", recordname);
@@ -234,6 +238,7 @@ extern "C" long streamReload(char* recordname)
     }
     dbFinishEntry(&dbentry);
     StreamProtocolParser::free();
+    streamError = oldStreamError;
     return OK;
 }
 
@@ -408,6 +413,7 @@ long streamInit(int after)
 {
     if (after)
     {
+        streamError = 0; // Switch off errors after init in order not to spam messages when a device is down.
         StreamProtocolParser::free();
     }
     return OK;

src/StreamError.cc

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 
 int streamDebug = 0;
-int streamError = 0;
+int streamError = 1;
 extern "C" {
 #ifdef _WIN32
 __declspec(dllexport)