Linux .conf settings

[rsbriggs]

Can't find any documentation about the possible settings of things in the sclient.conf file. Specifically, is there a flag I can use that will cause the client to terminate after completing the current test? I need to take the box out of service, but I'd like to allow the current test to complete first, without starting a new test afterwards.

[Ken_g6[TA]]

That's one of the features missing from the Linux version. :(

But you could set up an SBQueue (see my sig) with no queued work, and either disconnect it from the internet or change the SB server to something nonexistant temporarily. Otherwise the SBQueue will try to fetch another K and N when it's finds it has nothing queued.

[maddog1]

Another simple solution would be to just let the server assign you a new test and expire it immediately afterwards on the website pending test section (if you have more than one machine running, just make sure you expire the correct k/n pair) ;)

[wirthi]

Never tried that, but won't the client just fetch a new k/n pair then?

[maddog1]

FIRST expire the newly assigned test on the site THEN stop & exit the client before it gets the chance to report any more blocks of the (already) expired test!
It doesn't really matter if a couple of blocks of a newly assigned test are reported before you do the website login etc, the test will be moved to the dropped tests queue (and likely be assigned very soon to someone else) and you won't waste any serious CPU resources.
Seems simpler to me than the SBQueue trick described :)

[Polski Radon]

Damn, the Linux download has instructions on installing in Windows, can anyone help me?

I've got a headless and gutless PC here that's itching to work. A64 2800+ @2.3GHz, Kanotix (correct spelling) 64 bit version booting off a CD. :thumbs:


Edit: W00t!! 17 posts :cheers:

[Matt]

For the linux client just edit the config file and change the username. Then change to the current folder and do:

./sb sclient.conf &

That should work ok.