Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 03:24:16 -0400 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Allen Cleveland <allenc@mindsieve.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SETI@home error Message-ID: <37A7EA9F.74102312@charm.net> References: <3.0.5.32.19990804012031.00800bd0@mindsieve.com> <3.0.5.32.19990804020752.007fb100@mindsieve.com> <37A7DB91.FC256FC5@charm.net> <37A7E7D9.B41C30A9@3-cities.com>
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Kent Stewart wrote: > > 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 Yep on the single account, went to web site to download the 1.3 version. It all worked fine and it crunching numbers now. I am running it in a terminal (kvt) so it is out of the way. I do not know how KDE will affect it, not much I guess. This old 486/100 does hufF_and_puff a bit. Based on this configuration I do not have a clue on the bad header problem. 486 at 100Mz, IDE drive [I think there are no more bad sec] the 1.3 version of freedsd-unknown from SETI FreeBSD 3.2-R generic and KDE, both from walnut creek CD no patches or updates no fine tuning yet That is all from here. -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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