NoNet Option for Service

[Paratima]

I have some users who will run the client but want ABSOLUTELY no interaction. I've got them running the service under W2K.

Sweet deal! :D

Unfortunately, this group is now becoming involved in testing network interactions with our software product and are annoyed by the uploads every couple hours!

Would you please consider adding a "nonet=1" option to the service.cfg file that would perform the same function as "-i f"?

"network=0" would work just fine, also. ;)

[Scoofy12]

how would you tell it to upload then? maybe some signal you can send to the service? or maybe just a separate little program that you can run just for uploading? or what?

[Paratima]

Manually stop the service, either by deleting .lock or having dfGUI do it for me. Then run an upload. Then restart.

As these are (on current protein) 80K-150K/day boxen, it won't take long to upload over T1 after hours.

It's all something of a pain, but my choices are limited. These folks won't neatly stop and restart the client on their own. That's what makes the service install so great. Shutdown and restart are automatic.

The upload could be automated, but for these users, I don't mind a few extra minutes every day or two. Also, if Howard & Co. manage to decrease the amount to be uploaded significantly, then the users' objections will likely evaporate.

[MAD-ness]

Actually, if he gets a bit of time freed up, I think that it might be worthwhile just to make all of the applicable foldit.bat configuration options available for service installs via the service.cfg file (or whatever it is called).

Someone always seems to find some odd reason to use some feature that no one could have predicted a use for. If said feature encourages or allows that user to bring additional computers to the project, then everyone benefits.

What I really need though is a "re-route Paratima's production and re-name" option for MY service.cfg files. Any ETA on this one? :)

[Paratima]

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