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Need a little help

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Karsten

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OK... over thte weekend I can add a couple computers to do some crunching for us. Just going through some config issues, so I don't have to touch every new addition.

I have a batch file that copies seti and setidriver from a cd onto the new computer. When I start seti on the new computer via Seti Driver.exe it is just like any new install and it asks "Option 1 or 2" and so forth.
How do I, or what do I configure so I don't have to register every copy with Seti. Is there a cfg file or such that the seti client can use and copy my existing info from?

Hope I made clear what I need. Thanks for the help!
 
I found having that alone doesn't help ,easiest way I know is to have at least 1WU left in there still being crunched.
Just copy that over each time (& yeah it does mean you have a dupe each time its done but its so few I don't worry about it.........though if you had dozens of rigs to copy it to that would be different)
 
Update.... that did not work. Came back to work today to find 14 p4's sitting idle needeing work units. 🙁
Any other idea?
 
Are the systems on a network? Internet access? I used the FlexInstaller on almost all systems on my network, which allowed me to not have to touch any of them.
 
Originally posted by: Karsten
Update.... that did not work. Came back to work today to find 14 p4's sitting idle needeing work units. 🙁
Any other idea?
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Hmm ,your got to being doing something wrong or you have mis undertstood me cos I know this works!😉
Lets say you have SETIDriver on your home rig ,the cache size is set to 1 ,its currently crunching on a WU which is 30% completed.
Now copy this entire directory onto a CD or flopply & then you can copy it onto your new rigs ,they will continue on from where it left off at 30%(with SETI account info intact).
Now this does mean that each rig you are copying it onto will ending up crunching dupes for the 1st WU
I recommend you don't use this method if you're going to do it on more than 2 rigs in 1 day as you will end up with too many dupes.

[edit]Just had a thought ,if the WUs are submitted within a few days of each other then SETI@H will reject the 2nd & 3rd submission of them as dupes,SETI will carry on with the next WU without problems though.It'd just mean the time spent on those 1st WUs would have been wasted.AFAIK though thats the only way to install up & running clients [end edit]

As the others said with that number of PCs you'll want to point them to a SETIQ (whether internal or external) ,either way you can still use the above method & setup the client so it points to the selected Q & not have to alter any settings ,just copy them over🙂 (don't do all 14 in 1 go though if you use this method!:Q)
 
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Sounds like you forgot the user.sah file. As long as you have that the Option 1 & 2 should not appear.
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I've got a SETI install directory setup on my server. It contains the service install and does have a user.sah in it. I always get prompted for 1 or 2. No biggie as it still works fine.

 
OK... looks like a little background is in order.

I have control over a Lab with 14 P4's that sit idle quite a lot. I can run seti at some nights as well on the weekends without much hustle. Howerver... seti has to go rather fast for some tests.

My work around to this has been a CD with Seti client, 1 work unit as sugested (not ideal, since it will waste cycles on this one unit) and 2 batch files that install and de-install and start the client.

the batch files work like a charm, and installing and uninstalling is not much of an issue... that is... if it wheren't for 14 computers promting me to re-enter my login info every time I have to do this. 2-4 computer one or two times... is no big deal. But quite a few of these once or twice a day gets old quick and wastes time I sometimes can not spare.

Running an installer sound good and fine, but I don't think is a good solution for me. Any other sugestions?
 
I run SETI on up to 14 systems that don't have hard drives (they're removable and removed half the time.) I use a version of LRP, with custom mods to backup the work units to an FTP server, so I don't lose WUs in progress.

Floppy Image for Realtek RTL8139 network cards. You can copy the seti.lrp file over one on an image with your network card, if you can find one.
FTP retrieved tarfile

You can use either one private FTP server or one public and one private like I do. The public one is set up on the disk, and the private one is set up in setifiles.tar.gz (which is stored on the public one).

You'll need to modify the disk image to use a different FTP server, set up some authentication for an sftp or ftp server in setifiles.tar.gz (either in /root/.ssh or /usr/local/setiathome/dosetup respectively), and change the user_info.sah in /usr/local/setiathome to yours.

Once all this is set up correctly, you just pop the disk in and reboot the machine. To get back to normal, pop the disk out and reboot the machine.

I hope this is as useful to you as it has been to me.
 
I think I may have thought of a second solution. First, you shouldn't be using Seti Driver. If you need an install script, use something like:

mkdir %temp%\seti
cd %temp%\seti
copy x:\path\seti.exe .
copy x:\path\user_info.sah .
attrib -r user_info.sah
seti.exe -proxy your.seti.q

Second, you should either use a public SetiQ or make one of your own.

Third, if you're on Windows XP, or possibly Win2k, you can go to Control Panel, Scheduled Tasks, and schedule SETI to run at two times: at system start and when the system has been idle for [the screen blanker time] minutes. You can also set it to "Stop the task if the computer ceases to be idle" on the Settings tab. This basically works like the screen saver, but with the faster CLI client. 🙂
 
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