Welnic
06-09-2003, 02:11 PM
Right now if you start the client and it can see the server but the server is down for maintenance you get a message saying "SERVER DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE, TRY AGAIN LATER", and it asks you to hit enter. But if you are running it as a service it just grabs all the memory that it normally does and then just sits there waiting for the never arriving Enter key hit. You have to go to the process manager to kill it.
If it doesn't see the server at all or it gets this response after it is already running and it is trying to upload then it just starts folding and tries later. The best way around the problem is to start the client with the network cable unplugged, that way you don't have to configure it to not use the net and then reconfigure it later when the server is back up.
So why not just have start folding when it starts if the server is down for maintenance? I, for one, am now sure that it will be back, it has always come back in the past. :)
This last case is particularly painful for me as I think that most of my borged machines are shut off for the weekend and then left on all week. With the server being down at 8:00 PDT that is a whole week gone.
If it doesn't see the server at all or it gets this response after it is already running and it is trying to upload then it just starts folding and tries later. The best way around the problem is to start the client with the network cable unplugged, that way you don't have to configure it to not use the net and then reconfigure it later when the server is back up.
So why not just have start folding when it starts if the server is down for maintenance? I, for one, am now sure that it will be back, it has always come back in the past. :)
This last case is particularly painful for me as I think that most of my borged machines are shut off for the weekend and then left on all week. With the server being down at 8:00 PDT that is a whole week gone.