Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
110 hours is about how long a P200 takes.
Cactushead: I'm having trouble getting it to run in the background, automatcially.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Biggles - I've been trawling around the web for info on running the SETI Client in the background automatically in Linux and distilled the following info:-
To run it in the background rather than in a window, start the client with the options to direct output to /dev/null and use the switch & to release the command window. i.e.
[b]./setiathome > /dev/null &[/b]
You can ensure that it is always running (and automatically restart if it dies) by creating a cron job to start it. If it is already running then the cron job will not start an additional instance. It will only start the client if it is no longer running. So if your cron entry is in /etc/crontab and looks like this:
[b]30 * * * * mark cd /home/mark/Seti@home; ./setiathome > /dev/null &[/b]
The user (mark in this example) must be allowed to use cron processes by an entry in the /etc/cron.allow file.
Nice is the unix term for priority. The range of nice is -20 to 19 (depending on your distribution). Negative numbers have the higher priority and positive numbers have a lower priority. You can set the niceness of the client with the -nice parameter.
[b]./setiathome -nice 19[/b]
I hope some of this makes sence to you (it baffles me [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]) and helps you solve your SETI Client problems.
If you have any more problems and need more help then just post here and I'll try to help out.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
Thanks! I think that worked! Any idea how I can find out the current progress?
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
OK, I'm wrong. It ain't going. It just keeps exiting.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
I'm wrong again. It appears to have happily spent the night churning away. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
[quote]Originally posted by Cactushead:
[b]Cool, well in your case it seams two wrongs [i]do[/i] make a right [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
[/b][/quote]
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
So, any ideas on how I find out where it's up to?
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
You may want to try [url="http://web.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/tkseti/"]tkseti[/url] or [url="http://mindlessdrivel.net/e-setimon.html"]e-setimon[/url] or [url="http://www.guildsoftware.com/setiview/"]setiview[/url] or have a look at the list of programs on the [url="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/links.html"]seti website[/url], just click on the "Add-ons for Unix client" link.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
[This message has been edited by Cactushead (edited 01-23-2002).]
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
Those are X apps. I'm not running X unfortunately.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Oops, sorry [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/redface.gif[/img] I'm not really converse with Linux as I mostly use WinXP so please forgive me.
Did you look through the list I linked to in the previous post located on the SETI site to see if anything is suitable for your current setup?
Anyway, In the mean time I'll keep searching around the web to see if I can find a program which with work for you.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
Nope, can't really find anything. The program is running on a server, you see. They all must get the info from somewhere though. Maybe I'll just check the website regularly to see if it's updated.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Ahh right, so what you've got is one server connected to the internet with the rest of your network PC's NOT sharing that connection.
I presume that you've got the client setup on each of the networked PC's and the piece of software your require is to view from your server, what each of your networked PC's are up to and deal with supplying out the WU's.
So you basically want something like SETIGate which caches and distributes SETI@home workunits but for Linux instead of Windows.
If I've got your setup correct then I'll keep my eye out for you (if not then just set me right).
Well at least you've already climbed a position thanks to your one new WU last night - the first of many I hope.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
No, I have one server with the internet connection. This computer is running the client. All the other computers are networked to that computer and share the connection. They arn't running the client. So basically we're talking about an isolated computer without a monitor (hence no X).
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
I seem to be good at getting your setup completely wrong these last few days [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
Anyway I think I've got it now, so you basically want to see how the server is doing from one of the networked PC's (please be right, I can't continue to get it wrong, or can I?).
If that is finally correct then you could use [url="http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/"]VNC[/url], I use it myself to see how my other networked PC's are doing from my main PC. You can even control any of your other PC's whilst still at one station - and they can be running a mixture of operating systems as it's truly platform-independent. Very handy if you don't have many monitors, or your PC's are scattered around and not in one room.
And finally, the best bit of all is its FREE [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
It comprises of two programs, one the application (put this on your server or any PC you wish to view or control remotely) and secondly a viewer (put this on any number of your networked PC's).
You can download various versions for different operating Systems from [url="http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html"]here[/url].
I really hope I've got it right and this software works for you as I'm starting to look as intelligent as a bowl of cold spoo.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
You're doing better than most would with the limited information. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] Here's a little more: I can log in to the server remotely using SSH (Secure SHell), so it's like having a monitor. It's just how to find out exactly how much I've done in SETI@Home that's the trouble.
Will that program work out how well I'm doing in SETI@Home? I'm sure there must be some simple way of finding the info out.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Damn, I got it wrong again [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/mad.gif[/img] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/rolleyes.gif[/img]
So, you can already view your server from one of your networrked PC's but you still need to have a program that shows you the progress of your crunching.
VNC sounds like its similar to SSH, it's just for getting remote access to a networked PC.
Now that I'm 93% sure what you require, I'll keep my eyes out for a suitable program for you.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
[quote]Originally posted by Biggles:
[b]You're doing better than most would with the limited information. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] Here's a little more: I can log in to the server remotely using SSH (Secure SHell), so it's like having a monitor. It's just how to find out exactly how much I've done in SETI@Home that's the trouble.
Will that program work out how well I'm doing in SETI@Home? I'm sure there must be some simple way of finding the info out.
[/b][/quote]
You just want to see how far you are in the work unit?
just use vi or grep to look at state.sah and read the prog= line, it will read something like prog=0.643834172 which means 64% done.
"grep -i prog= state.sah" from within your seti@home dir
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
That would be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Comments
Cactushead: I'm having trouble getting it to run in the background, automatcially.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
To run it in the background rather than in a window, start the client with the options to direct output to /dev/null and use the switch & to release the command window. i.e.
[b]./setiathome > /dev/null &[/b]
You can ensure that it is always running (and automatically restart if it dies) by creating a cron job to start it. If it is already running then the cron job will not start an additional instance. It will only start the client if it is no longer running. So if your cron entry is in /etc/crontab and looks like this:
[b]30 * * * * mark cd /home/mark/Seti@home; ./setiathome > /dev/null &[/b]
The user (mark in this example) must be allowed to use cron processes by an entry in the /etc/cron.allow file.
Nice is the unix term for priority. The range of nice is -20 to 19 (depending on your distribution). Negative numbers have the higher priority and positive numbers have a lower priority. You can set the niceness of the client with the -nice parameter.
[b]./setiathome -nice 19[/b]
I hope some of this makes sence to you (it baffles me [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]) and helps you solve your SETI Client problems.
If you have any more problems and need more help then just post here and I'll try to help out.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
[b]Cool, well in your case it seams two wrongs [i]do[/i] make a right [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
[/b][/quote]
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
[This message has been edited by Cactushead (edited 01-23-2002).]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Did you look through the list I linked to in the previous post located on the SETI site to see if anything is suitable for your current setup?
Anyway, In the mean time I'll keep searching around the web to see if I can find a program which with work for you.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
I presume that you've got the client setup on each of the networked PC's and the piece of software your require is to view from your server, what each of your networked PC's are up to and deal with supplying out the WU's.
So you basically want something like SETIGate which caches and distributes SETI@home workunits but for Linux instead of Windows.
If I've got your setup correct then I'll keep my eye out for you (if not then just set me right).
Well at least you've already climbed a position thanks to your one new WU last night - the first of many I hope.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Anyway I think I've got it now, so you basically want to see how the server is doing from one of the networked PC's (please be right, I can't continue to get it wrong, or can I?).
If that is finally correct then you could use [url="http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/"]VNC[/url], I use it myself to see how my other networked PC's are doing from my main PC. You can even control any of your other PC's whilst still at one station - and they can be running a mixture of operating systems as it's truly platform-independent. Very handy if you don't have many monitors, or your PC's are scattered around and not in one room.
And finally, the best bit of all is its FREE [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
It comprises of two programs, one the application (put this on your server or any PC you wish to view or control remotely) and secondly a viewer (put this on any number of your networked PC's).
You can download various versions for different operating Systems from [url="http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html"]here[/url].
I really hope I've got it right and this software works for you as I'm starting to look as intelligent as a bowl of cold spoo.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
Will that program work out how well I'm doing in SETI@Home? I'm sure there must be some simple way of finding the info out.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
So, you can already view your server from one of your networrked PC's but you still need to have a program that shows you the progress of your crunching.
VNC sounds like its similar to SSH, it's just for getting remote access to a networked PC.
Now that I'm 93% sure what you require, I'll keep my eyes out for a suitable program for you.
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Cactushead ~ The spiky headed one
[url="http://www.cactushead.f2s.com"]Team B5:ITF[/url] ~ on their search beyond the rim
[b]You're doing better than most would with the limited information. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] Here's a little more: I can log in to the server remotely using SSH (Secure SHell), so it's like having a monitor. It's just how to find out exactly how much I've done in SETI@Home that's the trouble.
Will that program work out how well I'm doing in SETI@Home? I'm sure there must be some simple way of finding the info out.
[/b][/quote]
You just want to see how far you are in the work unit?
just use vi or grep to look at state.sah and read the prog= line, it will read something like prog=0.643834172 which means 64% done.
"grep -i prog= state.sah" from within your seti@home dir
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras