Help! Bring me up to date

[Agent31]

well, unless it has a limit of 6 offline 'sessions' ...

[lurqa_MU]

DF on other platforms

.....Someone else will have to speak for the other supported operating systems.....

I am running the client on linux, Solaris and HP-UX. Although the client runs very well without crashing or anything like that - it does have a tendency to go into a busy-idling mode on all of the mentioned platforms, when the protein is changed. (forcing me to restart the client).

This causes my production to fall occationally, as I don't follow up to closely on the operation of the clients. Perhaps this is already solved by a new version of the client, havn't had time to check for any updates.

In addition one of my main machines is living in a closed closet, and the high temperatures we are seeing this summer are atcually forcing me to shut down the client from time to time.. (watch the temperature curve here)

Regards,
lurqa

[High_Jumbllama]

The eight wee beasties have been added. Results probably won't appear 'til tomorrow as after I was finished I had to check something else and then shut down for the day.

The PCs needed an autoupdate.txt file containg nothing else than the number "1" and a CR/LF. Could this be the same for those operating systems? It would be in the readme1st.txt file.

Checking tar.gz file now. . . . . . . . . .

Exccerpt:
Non-interactive Auto-update
---------------------------
For your security, you will be asked for confirmation before any updates
are download and installed on your computer. All updates are digitally
signed and so if is fairly safe to always allow digitially signed updates
to be installed. A malicious user would have to compromise the private
encryption key in order to "spoof" and update and make it appear to come
from us. Thus you have the option of allowing the client to automatically
accept and install digitally signed updates (and automatically refuse
unsigned ones). By default this feature is disabled and you must give
your consent for downloads to begin, because we feel the choice should be
that of the user. To enable this feature and allow automatic updating
without your intervention required, simply create a text file in the same
directory as the client, called "autoupdate.cfg" with the the digit 1 on a
single line. If you change your mind, simply remove the file, and it will
revert back to its default behaviour the next time you run it.

[Agent31]

I was right, the Win32 text client has a limit of 6 offline 'sessions'

[Guru]

Originally posted by Agent31
I was right, the Win32 text client has a limit of 6 offline 'sessions'

Use DFGUI!

[Agent31]

I can't run two GUI sessions on my SMP workstation though Where as, I can run two text client sessions, one on each CPU

I'll just shut up now before somebody else sets me straight for a 3rd time!

[Guru]

Originally posted by Agent31
I can't run two GUI sessions on my SMP workstation though Where as, I can run two text client sessions, one on each CPU

I'll just shut up now before somebody else sets me straight for a 3rd time!

As far as I know you can only run DFGUI with the text client!

http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/dfGUI/

[Agent31]

dammit! I knew I'd be wrong again...crappola

[TomNuttall]

Originally posted by Agent31
I was right, the Win32 text client has a limit of 6 offline 'sessions'

You can edit the .bat file and add -df to the command line as per the following extract from the readme1st file


Increasing the Buffer Size
--------------------------
By default, if the client has generated six sets of data and not been able to upload them to our server (for example, because you are disconnected from the network), it will no longer run until your network is restored and the data can be uploaded and cleared from your machine. This is to prevent data from accumulating on your hard drive. If you intend to be running the client offline a fair bit, you may wish to allow it to buffer a larger amount of work however (at the cost of taking up several more megabytes of disk space). To do so, simply edit the foldit script (foldit.bat on Windows) and add "-df" (without the quotes) to the end of the line containing "foldtrajlite -f protein -n native". If you later change your mind, simply remove the -df.

Tom

[High_Jumbllama]

Originally posted by Agent31
I can't run two GUI sessions on my SMP workstation though Where as, I can run two text client sessions, one on each CPU

I'll just shut up now before somebody else sets me straight for a 3rd time!

Hmmm, finally a reason for me to have a quad processor based system.