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Just joined! EDIT: now with personal proxy question
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Personal Proxy Question
Okay, here's the deal:
I'm running the personal proxy as a service on a WinNT 4.0 machine that has dialup internet access. It's on 24/7.
Is there any way to set it up so that:
-it only holds RC5
-it always has at least a couple of days work on hand
-uploads completed work at night, autodialling if necessary.
I've been fighting with this thing for a while. It seems that it won't detect a dialup connection when running as a service... my original thought was to have it update frequently only when a connection was present--but i couldn't get that to work. As such, I'd like to have it update after-hours when nobody is around. I don't want it dumping a days work during office hours and clogging up the internet connection, and I don't want it autodialing every 15 minutes all night long. Does that makes sense?
Okay, here's the deal:
I'm running the personal proxy as a service on a WinNT 4.0 machine that has dialup internet access. It's on 24/7.
Is there any way to set it up so that:
-it only holds RC5
-it always has at least a couple of days work on hand
-uploads completed work at night, autodialling if necessary.
I've been fighting with this thing for a while. It seems that it won't detect a dialup connection when running as a service... my original thought was to have it update frequently only when a connection was present--but i couldn't get that to work. As such, I'd like to have it update after-hours when nobody is around. I don't want it dumping a days work during office hours and clogging up the internet connection, and I don't want it autodialing every 15 minutes all night long. Does that makes sense?
I noticed just the same. My home pproxy was working just fine in the tray, but then I set it to run as a service and it doesent detect dialup anymore.
For now I just use the service manager to manually restart it daily, it then sees the connection.
I need to make a batch file with the command net restart perproxy (or something like that, dont remember the syntax) to be able to flush with a click of the mouse when I'm online. Cant think of anything better for now.
Another way would be to have it flush when it needs, but I hate comps to use my phone when I'm not around.
For now I just use the service manager to manually restart it daily, it then sees the connection.
I need to make a batch file with the command net restart perproxy (or something like that, dont remember the syntax) to be able to flush with a click of the mouse when I'm online. Cant think of anything better for now.
Another way would be to have it flush when it needs, but I hate comps to use my phone when I'm not around.
win2K @home, win2K/NT4server @work
No command line to flush. The command line that flushes the client actually starts up a new client that reads the buffers, does whatever fetching/flushing is needed, then exits. This is possible since client buffers reside on disk and are sharable.
Proxy buffers, OTOH reside in memory and are written to disk periodically. So starting a second proxy to do the flushing would do no good. The only way to get the proxy to flush is by sending it a Ctrl+pause (impossible if running as a service). It is possible in linux, but thats beyond my understanding.
No command line to flush. The command line that flushes the client actually starts up a new client that reads the buffers, does whatever fetching/flushing is needed, then exits. This is possible since client buffers reside on disk and are sharable.
Proxy buffers, OTOH reside in memory and are written to disk periodically. So starting a second proxy to do the flushing would do no good. The only way to get the proxy to flush is by sending it a Ctrl+pause (impossible if running as a service). It is possible in linux, but thats beyond my understanding.
Why not using the proxysig.exe that comes with the proxy? It can be used for sending commands to the proxy just like what can be done in linux by sending signals. The command-line syntax is as follows:
D:\Program Files\Misc\Distributed\Dnet\Proxy>proxysig /?
Syntax: proxysig [-update | -shutdown | -reload]
Putting that into a scheduled task would do the job I think 🙂
<edit> Welcome to the team btw. 🙂 </edit>
D:\Program Files\Misc\Distributed\Dnet\Proxy>proxysig /?
Syntax: proxysig [-update | -shutdown | -reload]
Putting that into a scheduled task would do the job I think 🙂
<edit> Welcome to the team btw. 🙂 </edit>
Wow, I overlooked this file when I installed. I fact I couldnt figure out what it was, and deleted it 🙂 (my philosophy : Get rid al all that is useless ; if you dont understand something, its useless).
Ok, so we can send signals to the proxy in NT. Thats better than restarting it. But it doesnt help much to have it flush WHEN a connection activates. 🙁
Mhhh need a dialup detection app that would do the job. ICQ could do, but I wont install it just for that.
Ok, so we can send signals to the proxy in NT. Thats better than restarting it. But it doesnt help much to have it flush WHEN a connection activates. 🙁
Mhhh need a dialup detection app that would do the job. ICQ could do, but I wont install it just for that.
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