Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 00:12:25 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> Cc: Allen Cleveland <allenc@mindsieve.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SETI@home error Message-ID: <37A7E7D9.B41C30A9@3-cities.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19990804012031.00800bd0@mindsieve.com> <3.0.5.32.19990804020752.007fb100@mindsieve.com> <37A7DB91.FC256FC5@charm.net>
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Dutch Collins wrote: > > Allen Cleveland wrote: > > > > At 10:46 PM 8/3/99 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > > >Allen Cleveland wrote: > > >> > > >> I've just installed, from the ports collection, the setiathome client and > > >> I'm getting the following error once it has a work unit: > > >> > > >> Bad file header > > >> > > >> Sadly, thats all I get. It might be worth mentioning that I initially > > >> tried running all the freebsd clients that are available from the seti web > > >> site and all returned the same error. This is what leads me to believe > > >> I've left something out, rather than the work units actually being > > >> corrupt. This is also the reason I've installed it from the ports > > >> collection and am now asking if anyone here has any ideas. > > > > > >You have to have setup an account with Berkeley. Did you do that. I > > >have been running version 1.2 for FreeBSD 3.2 for a little over a > > >month. > > > > > >Kent > > > > Oh.. I've an account.. the web sites says I've 'completed more work units > > than 96.371% of our users.' :) I want to see how much better the fbsd box > > does than the wintel boxes :) > > > > > > > >> > > >> setiathome version: > > >> > > >> bash-2.03# cat version.txt > > >> major_version=1 > > >> minor_version=1 > > >> > > >> freebsd version: > > >> > > >> bash-2.03# uname -a > > >> FreeBSD roswell 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jun 13 05:43:26 > > >> EDT 1999 root@roswell:/usr/src/sys/compile/ROSWELL i386 > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com > > >> There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda > > >> > > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > >-- > > >Kent Stewart > > >Richland, WA > > > > > >mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > > >http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > > > > > >SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > > >http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > > > > -- > > Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com > > There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > I bet you need to create a new account because you are using new software. > The only use I have had for win98 lately is to run the win98 version. It > is neat looking. No! You only create one account. I have four machines running it and the original was setup on NT 4+. I have copied the directory between systems and deleted the state and work unit. When I execute it, it immediately downloads a new WU and starts processing it. You can run it from a shared directory on a different machine or a local directory. It doesn't matter. The problems occur with demand dial. FreeBSD DD's faster than NT did and FreeBSD will upload the results. NT times out. If I use NAT on NT, FreeBSD and NT time out. I have a batch file that switches between two directories. If the result.txt is in the directory, it needs to be uploaded and I run setiathome in that directory. I kill the job after the next WU is downloaded. That gives me most of a day covered with out my FreeBSD system connected to my ISP. It will alternate until I create a stop file and when that exists, it stops the loop. If it switches and a RESULT.TXT is there, it will upload it and download a new WU at that point. I don't have to do anything. I had it running on Win98 but that machine was a 200Mhz Pentium, which needed a long-long time to do a WU. Win 98 may have taken 35 hrs and NT 25 but the command line version for Windows NT is using 9-11 hours depending on the number of gaussian's. If you run the GUI version, it is very important to blank the screen or run it minimized. That alone is worth around a factor of 2.5 or so. Visit the web site. They now have graphics that shows where the data has been analyzed. You can watch the earth circle through each region. The radio telescope at Arecibo is fixed and Serendipity obtains data where the earth is pointing the antenna at the time. Kent > > -d -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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