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mod app_info.xml to show version on boincmgr or boincview?
BeemerBiker:
--- Quote from: ajs on 20 Apr 2007, 12:26:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: BeemerBiker on 20 Apr 2007, 10:13:05 am ---I have a bunch of systems and found that by the time I got the last one upgraded the first one was sometimes running old software.
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I have some 40+ linux machines and suffer also from this.
to get around it, I wrote a script that can enquire of various thigs on each host
for example glibc version, chicken version, kernel version etc
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I had a number of ancient RH9 linux running classic seti but was unable to run the new boinc when it first came out. They were all command line, not gui, and I gave up trying to figure out how to get that old versoin of RedHat 2.4 to work and switched to win2k. I would like to use a boot cd like koppix and just run linux and boinc from the boot. These are mostly dual cpu P3 so I would need smp kernel. I do not know enough about koppix to build a tailored boot cd that would be able to attached to my seti project automatically. I see where boinc is offering BartPE. I have used that as a recover tool but never to run seti. Not sure about the licensing. I am probably stretching our license agreement with m$oft using win2k licenses that were "abandond" when we switched to xp.
Anyway, if I was able to boot all of my "retired" dual p3's with a cd linux I would be interested in your script. Every now and then we build a huge rack of systems and they need to be burned in like these dual 64 bit athlons http://tinyurl.com/qpbow They sat idle for months, they were diskless except for a cd and would have made a good seti farm.
ajs:
--- Quote from: BeemerBiker on 20 Apr 2007, 03:01:49 pm ---Anyway, if I was able to boot all of my "retired" dual p3's with a cd linux I would be interested in your script. Every now and then we build a huge rack of systems and they need to be burned in like these dual 64 bit athlons http://tinyurl.com/qpbow They sat idle for months, they were diskless except for a cd and would have made a good seti farm.
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My script is nothing sprecial and I'm sure it would be ripped apart by others but it suits my needs.
It ends up running an ssh command to the remote hosts to get the info I want displayed.
There's a case statement to allow for different queries all within a for loop of the hostnames (or Ip addrs)
I can email it to you on monday
ajs:
You should have an email mate
Metod, S56RKO:
--- Quote from: BeemerBiker on 18 Apr 2007, 12:42:33 pm ---It appears there is no easy way to find which version of seti i am running other than to examine completed output "results". I do see "enhanced 5.17" in boincmgr but I would rather see something like "R-2.2B|xT|FFT:IPP_SSE3|Ben-Joe" . Is there a mod that xml file that can be made so that boincmgr (or boincview) can display the client version I am using?
Could I just replace the "5.17" that is in that xml with 2.2b_SSE3 identifier?
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Recent versions ov BOINC Manager and BoincView support the use of <user_friendly_name> mechanism ... and some projects already use it (such as Einstein).
As others pointed out, one really mustn't change the name nor version of application ...
See an example below.
--- Code: ---<app_info>
<app>
<name>seti_enhanced</name>
<user_friendly_name>Seti 5.17 R-2.2B|xT|FFT:IPP_SSE2|Ben-Joe</user_friendly_name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>KWSN_2.2B_SSE2-P4_Ben-Joe.exe</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>seti_enhanced</app_name>
<version_num>517</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>KWSN_2.2B_SSE2-P4_Ben-Joe.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>
</app_info>
--- End code ---
Hummm ... too bad you can't use colouring within [code ] blocks ???
Simon:
Hi Metod,
you can use it within a "quote" block though. Combine it with a "tt" one (the typewriter symbol above) and it'll look similar to the code one.
Anyway, seems like a worthwhile change. Do you know what minimum version of BOINC is needed to use the <user_friendly_name> XML field? Also, will older versions just silently ignore it or die?
Regards,
Simon.
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