Different settings for certain weekdays

Questions and Answers : Preferences : Different settings for certain weekdays

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Rolf-Werner Send message Joined: 5 Nov 02 Posts: 11 Credit: 15,174 RAC: 0	Message 515688 - Posted: 10 Feb 2007, 12:23:16 UTC
	Hi all, Is it possible to let the client run and pause at different times over the week? In my case (office server, Linux) the machine could run BOINC over the weekend 24 hours a day, but during the week I need a restriction to the night hours. I thought of a cron job swapping the preference files, but there might be more elegant solutions out there. Thanks for all tips. Regards Rolf ____________
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Aurora Borealis Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 2975 Credit: 4,228,169 RAC: 2,679	Message 515699 - Posted: 10 Feb 2007, 12:37:48 UTC - in response to Message 515688. Last modified: 10 Feb 2007, 12:44:18 UTC
	Hi all, Is it possible to let the client run and pause at different times over the week? In my case (office server, Linux) the machine could run BOINC over the weekend 24 hours a day, but during the week I need a restriction to the night hours. I thought of a cron job swapping the preference files, but there might be more elegant solutions out there. Thanks for all tips. Regards Rolf Not yet. They are working on an advanced local options that will have daily preference setting, but it's still not ready even for alpha testing. Probably wont be available until version 5.10.x. Keep checking for new releases and happy crunching. ____________ Questions? Answers are in the "Unofficial" BOINC Wiki. Boinc V7.0.27 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470
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Rolf-Werner Send message Joined: 5 Nov 02 Posts: 11 Credit: 15,174 RAC: 0	Message 515767 - Posted: 10 Feb 2007, 16:19:38 UTC
	Ok, so how do I keep it from reading the preferences from the seti website during the weekend? I didn't find a "switch" for it, neither in the preferences file nor on the website account preferences. This would enable me to use two different preferences files. Rolf ____________
	ID: 515767 ·

mikey Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Dec 99 Posts: 4215 Credit: 3,474,603 RAC: 0	Message 515783 - Posted: 10 Feb 2007, 16:39:02 UTC - in response to Message 515767.
	Ok, so how do I keep it from reading the preferences from the seti website during the weekend? I didn't find a "switch" for it, neither in the preferences file nor on the website account preferences. This would enable me to use two different preferences files. Rolf This is not possible in the current versions of the software. You can manually do it, but that would be a ROYAL PAIN! ____________
	ID: 515783 ·

Aurora Borealis Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 2975 Credit: 4,228,169 RAC: 2,679	Message 515791 - Posted: 10 Feb 2007, 16:46:45 UTC
	Which preference do you want different on the Weekend? ____________ Questions? Answers are in the "Unofficial" BOINC Wiki. Boinc V7.0.27 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470
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Rolf-Werner Send message Joined: 5 Nov 02 Posts: 11 Credit: 15,174 RAC: 0	Message 515807 - Posted: 10 Feb 2007, 17:19:02 UTC - in response to Message 515791. Last modified: 10 Feb 2007, 17:20:16 UTC
	Which preference do you want different on the Weekend? The time from and up to it may run. On the weekend, it may run 24 h/day, but from Monday 7:00 am it has to change to run only over night, i. e. from 6 pm to 7 am. Friday 6 pm to Monday 7 am would be weekend. This could be easily edited in the preferences file, then I could set a cron job to swap the files. But it would not have to re-read the preferences from the website. Rolf ____________
	ID: 515807 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 22343 Credit: 437,061 RAC: 263	Message 515911 - Posted: 10 Feb 2007, 20:49:18 UTC - in response to Message 515688.
	Hi all, Is it possible to let the client run and pause at different times over the week? In my case (office server, Linux) the machine could run BOINC over the weekend 24 hours a day, but during the week I need a restriction to the night hours. I thought of a cron job swapping the preference files, but there might be more elegant solutions out there. Thanks for all tips. Regards Rolf There is a slightly more elegant solution. BOINCCmd has some command line switches in particular: boinccmd --set_run_mode {always \| auto \| never} To start processing: boinccmd --set_run_mode always To stop processing: boinccmd --set_run_mode never there are more switches and parameters available by typing boinccmd --help ____________ BOINC WIKI
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Rolf-Werner Send message Joined: 5 Nov 02 Posts: 11 Credit: 15,174 RAC: 0	Message 516678 - Posted: 12 Feb 2007, 16:48:13 UTC - in response to Message 515911.
	There is a slightly more elegant solution. BOINCCmd has some command line switches in particular: boinccmd --set_run_mode {always \| auto \| never} To start processing: boinccmd --set_run_mode always To stop processing: boinccmd --set_run_mode never there are more switches and parameters available by typing boinccmd --help Yeah - thanks a lot! :-) Good hint. Manually it runs well, I can switch on and off as expected. However, via crontab it produces an "Authorization failure: -155" when started from the official system's crontab (under my personal rights). When started from a user's (mine) crontab, nothing happens too, but with no error message at all. Any idea? Rolf ____________
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Questions and Answers : Preferences : Different settings for certain weekdays