Potential solution for getting more wu's/sending more results

[SoulAssassin]

After getting fed up w SETIQueue and SETIDriver not attempting enough to d/l enough w/u's and waiting too long between tries, I started writing a script that would parse through the dir's and try to send w/u's up. Below you'll find a rough, but working, copy of a script you can place in your setidriver dir that will go through and attempt to send results/pull w/u's.

If 1 out of X attempts to connect fail, the more attempts you make, the more will get through. The end purpose being to have an AT job that runs every X minutes in addition to the SETIQ/Driver attempts. I'll probably make some more changes later to copy user_info files (useful when adding dir's or adding setidriver installations and it keeps asking you for your email address) as well as some error checking (if not exist c:\setidriver\%%1 and others) as well as the AT cmd line to schedule it.

If anyone knows of a cmd line argument to throw at SETI to make it try more often than once an hour it would be greatly appreciated. Don't forget to change the dir/executable name.

Feedback or thoughts on other ways to work this are greatly appreciated.

>> Begin cut/paste below

echo off

set START=1
set MAX=2

for /l %%i in (%START%,1,%MAX%) do (
copy c:\setidriver\seti.exe c:\setidriver\%%i\
c:\setidriver\%%i\seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
del c:\setidriver\%%i\seti.exe
)

 

[Polo]

Thanks SoulAssassin ! 🙂

I'll try it. 🙂

 

[Eltano1]

Now that you are working in SetiQ, do you know if there is a way to make it to work hide, so it can be started as a service and not having an icon on the system tray?
I will like to be able to start the Q at boot up and let it run until the pc is shut down. As you can see or imagine that pc is not mine and I'm only able to use on saturdays, but if I can find a way to use during the week, I will be able to flush it more often and therefore less time up/dowloading WUS.

Best regards

Eltano

 

[micron]

<< Now that you are working in SetiQ, do you know if there is a way to make it to work hide, so it can be started as a service and not having an icon on the system tray?
I will like to be able to start the Q at boot up and let it run until the pc is shut down. As you can see or imagine that pc is not mine and I'm only able to use on saturdays, but if I can find a way to use during the week, I will be able to flush it more often and therefore less time up/dowloading WUS.

Best regards

Eltano >>

Taken from the Seti Queue site:

<< Once you have performed the normal SetiQueue install, you can run it as a service by performing the following:

Run "setiqueue -i" to install as a service
In Windows/NT 4.0 go to the Control Panel->Services function. In Windows 2000 go to the Control Panel->Admintrative Tools->Services function. Edit the start properties of the setiqueue service to be what you want, and start the setiqueue service.
Do not set the service to interact with the desktop. When SetiQueue is used as a service is expects to run in the background and does not enable any of it's user interface functions.
To uninstall, stop the service, and run "setiqueue -u".

Before starting SetiQueue as service be sure to run the application interactively once and set the port # for the SetiQueue Queue Server, and the HTTP administration password. >>

 

[Eltano1]

Thanks Micron, I thought that even though it said that is running as a service still will show an icon on the system tray.
I have a couple of questions, first this pc connects to the net thru a LAN so I don't think that I need to set up any port, and second is there any need for password?

best regards

Eltano

 

[AliensInLAdslr]

Where did all the WUs go????😱

This situation is getting B-A-D.🙁

 

[micron]

<< Thanks Micron, I thought that even though it said that is running as a service still will show an icon on the system tray.
I have a couple of questions, first this pc connects to the net thru a LAN so I don't think that I need to set up any port, and second is there any need for password?

best regards

Eltano >>

I think you need the port # configured, so your clients can access the queue. You need a password, because when Seti Queue is installed as a service, you access it through a web browser. You need the password to connect, and also to change settings via a web browser. 😉

 

[Eltano1]

My herd is already getting thru the SetiQ, for almost a month, what I'm trying to do is, instead of running it only on Saturdays, to be able to run the Q during the week, but have to be completely invisible.
So do you you think that this will work>

Eltano

 

[micron]

It should work. I run Seti Queue as a service on my win2k machine, it's invisible except for showing Queue.exe (i renamed SetiQueue.exe) in the taskmanager.