Subject: Re: Files controling seti
From: raj@rijhwani.org (Raj Rijhwani)
Date: 07/01/2004, 12:36
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

On Tuesday, in article
     <S0qKb.39161$Pg1.2544@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
     obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam "Michael D. Ober" wrote (subject to
     re-rorderding):

"AZ Woody" <Reply@here.not.email> wrote in message
news:kKnKb.38$dk6.51037@news.uswest.net...
I know I've seen references to files which you can place in the seti dirs
which will allow things like "stop after uploading results", etc, but
can't
seem to find a list...

I have a machine which is running a linux-ramdisk version, and would like
to
control a few actions - for example, so that I don't loose WIP when I need
to reboot...

Can anybody point me at a list of the files that can control the client?


The only file you need to know about is stop_after_send.txt.  This file
instructs the client to not download a new WU when it finishes returning the
current one.  Other than that, all the files are updated every 60-65 seconds
as the client works, so you will never lose more than a minute or so of
processing when you reboot.

He's working from ramdisk.  The files won't be stored at reboot unless he 
explicitly backs them up.
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