From a630ecefc95ee61bf56cb3a2b7534a685df7509c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 23:08:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] proper search for beacon period parm

---
 src/ca/acctst.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ca/acctst.c b/src/ca/acctst.c
index b4493c030..9842f4cbd 100644
--- a/src/ca/acctst.c
+++ b/src/ca/acctst.c
@@ -2214,8 +2214,15 @@ void verifyReasonableBeaconPeriod ( chid chan )
         double beaconPeriod, expectedBeaconPeriod, error, percentError;
         unsigned attempts = 0u;
 
-        long status = envGetDoubleConfigParam ( 
-            &EPICS_CAS_BEACON_PERIOD, &expectedBeaconPeriod );
+        int status;
+        if ( envGetConfigParamPtr ( & EPICS_CAS_BEACON_PERIOD ) ) {
+            status = envGetDoubleConfigParam ( & EPICS_CAS_BEACON_PERIOD, 
+                & expectedBeaconPeriod );
+        }
+        else {
+            status = envGetDoubleConfigParam ( & EPICS_CA_BEACON_PERIOD, 
+                & expectedBeaconPeriod );
+        }
         assert ( status >=0 );
     
         while ( 1 ) {