El lun, 05 feb 2001, Jeffrey Taylor escribió:
My setiathome clients have been hung, waiting to send/receive for days. Are other people seeing this too? Or do I have some local screwup?
I havent had any troubles recently, well you know the usual server overload, but not a complete stop as you point. BTW, maybe you have found a way to start the clients from a desktop shortcut, or even better, now i've been talking about cron, how would I configure cron to see if the seti client is running ( say each 5 min or so ) and if not, start it. Starting the clients from desktop shortcut had a funny effect which i comment in case s.o. else had it happened them. I dont know if theres sth a-la-windows "working folder". So when I started the server, it started filling my .xsession-errors file, and in about 1 or 2 min I had a full /home partition !!! took me days to point out what was happening. So I have to open a console and start clients manually if i have turned the system off. And now I remember another question... anyone has resized their partitions sometime ? I find now 250 MB is not going to be enough for /home soon, and would like a hint, or a nice link to a description of the process. I have plenty of space both in / and /usr. Thanks in advance, hope its not a too messy msg. :) --
From the forgotten corner in Europe, Land of Breogan Powered by GNU/Linux SuSE 7.0 - Linux user #97.266
...may the force be with you
I should have RTFM or in this case RTF Web site. A new version,
3.03, is out and is mandatory. The old versions cannot contact the
server.
In the README file are instructions on how to create a cron job to
restart it.
Jeffrey
Quoting O'Bieito
El lun, 05 feb 2001, Jeffrey Taylor escribió:
My setiathome clients have been hung, waiting to send/receive for days. Are other people seeing this too? Or do I have some local screwup?
I havent had any troubles recently, well you know the usual server overload, but not a complete stop as you point.
BTW, maybe you have found a way to start the clients from a desktop shortcut, or even better, now i've been talking about cron, how would I configure cron to see if the seti client is running ( say each 5 min or so ) and if not, start it.
Starting the clients from desktop shortcut had a funny effect which i comment in case s.o. else had it happened them. I dont know if theres sth a-la-windows "working folder". So when I started the server, it started filling my .xsession-errors file, and in about 1 or 2 min I had a full /home partition !!! took me days to point out what was happening. So I have to open a console and start clients manually if i have turned the system off.
And now I remember another question... anyone has resized their partitions sometime ? I find now 250 MB is not going to be enough for /home soon, and would like a hint, or a nice link to a description of the process. I have plenty of space both in / and /usr.
Thanks in advance, hope its not a too messy msg. :)
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
I should have RTFM or in this case RTF Web site. A new version, 3.03, is out and is mandatory. The old versions cannot contact the K then, thats 2 of us because the cron thingie was there explained. But I need another little piece of advice : I couldn't find in man cron or man crontab how to change the time the
El lun, 05 feb 2001, Jeffrey Taylor escribió: proccess will start... What should I do to make it check say each 5 or 10 minutes if the client is running? Or even better, if s.o. can tell me where to find the meaning of p.e. this line the seti@home proposes 0 * * * * cd <setidir>; ./setiathome -nice 19 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null Where is this info ? Thx in advance --
From the forgotten corner in Europe, Land of Breogan Powered by GNU/Linux SuSE 7.0 - Linux user #97.266
...may the force be with you
Look in man crontab.
Quoting O'Bieito
I should have RTFM or in this case RTF Web site. A new version, 3.03, is out and is mandatory. The old versions cannot contact the K then, thats 2 of us because the cron thingie was there explained. But I need another little piece of advice : I couldn't find in man cron or man crontab how to change the time the
El lun, 05 feb 2001, Jeffrey Taylor escribió: proccess will start... What should I do to make it check say each 5 or 10 minutes if the client is running? Or even better, if s.o. can tell me where to find the meaning of p.e. this line the seti@home proposes
0 * * * * cd <setidir>; ./setiathome -nice 19 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
Where is this info ? Thx in advance
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
hi On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, O'Bieito wrote:
But I need another little piece of advice : I couldn't find in man cron or man crontab how to change the time the proccess will start... What should I do to make it check say each 5 or 10 minutes if the client is running? Or even better, if s.o. can tell me where to find the meaning of p.e. this line the seti@home proposes
0 * * * * cd <setidir>; ./setiathome -nice 19 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
*/5 * * * * pidof setiathome
Where is this info ? man 5 crontab ^^^
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O'Bieito wrote:
And now I remember another question... anyone has resized their partitions sometime ? I find now 250 MB is not going to be enough for /home soon, and would like a hint, or a nice link to a description of the process. I have plenty of space both in / and /usr.
I know what you mean, I just increased my /home from 1GB to 3GB, and it's currently sitting at 2GB used... Your best option here for rearranging partitions is to invest in a copy of the latest Partition Magic (a commercial, DOS based program). It is absolutely fantastic and the latest version can handle ext2. If you want a rather ugly solution, you can create a new /home directory in / and copy the contents over (you'll have to do a number of renaming operations to do this). Then you'll have to find something useful to do with that now empty partition. Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Quoting Chris Reeves
O'Bieito wrote:
And now I remember another question... anyone has resized their partitions sometime ? I find now 250 MB is not going to be enough for /home soon, and would like a hint, or a nice link to a description of the process. I have plenty of space both in / and /usr.
I know what you mean, I just increased my /home from 1GB to 3GB, and it's currently sitting at 2GB used...
Your best option here for rearranging partitions is to invest in a copy of the latest Partition Magic (a commercial, DOS based program). It is absolutely fantastic and the latest version can handle ext2.
I would also recommend Partition Magic as being very useful in this type of situation.
If you want a rather ugly solution, you can create a new /home
directory
in / and copy the contents over (you'll have to do a number of renaming operations to do this). Then you'll have to find something useful to do with that now empty partition.
Another possibility I use when having to store large data sets prior and post analysis is to create new "data" partitions under root often on another hard disk. Usually I create whole partitions mounted as /data1, /data2 ... and so on. Within each data partition you can then create directories for any user needing extra space. Then put a symbolic link in the users home directory to this new extra disk space. Hope this is of some use. Mark ----------------------------------------------------- This mail was sent through SilkyMail v1.0b3
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