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Message 39933 - Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 9:45:32 UTC

I'm running BOINC/Seti on a SuSE server. Over the weekend, we had a problem with out 'net connection. Now Boinc/Seti is saying it won't attempt to contact the servers for another week. How to I force a connect NOW ?

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Message 40130 - Posted: 26 Oct 2004, 1:01:52 UTC

cd to the directory that you are running BOINC from and do a Ctrl-C to halt BOINC then start BOINC by the ./BOINC_client_you_are_using -update_prefs URL
You can also do ./BOINC_client_you_are_using -h for a list of the options.

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Message 40157 - Posted: 26 Oct 2004, 2:10:37 UTC - in response to Message 40130.  

> cd to the directory that you are running BOINC from and do a Ctrl-C to halt
> BOINC then start BOINC by the ./BOINC_client_you_are_using -update_prefs URL
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> You can also do ./BOINC_client_you_are_using -h for a list of the options.

Unless this has been fixed in newer BOINC releases, the -update_prefs option doesn't force a connection. Earlier versions needed to have the value in the min_rpc_time tag changed to 0.
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Message 40287 - Posted: 26 Oct 2004, 12:51:06 UTC - in response to Message 40157.  

> Earlier versions needed to have the value in the
> min_rpc_time tag changed to 0.

Thanks for that hint. I changed that and my server is now talking to the seti servers.

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Message 40469 - Posted: 27 Oct 2004, 2:10:31 UTC

It worked for me the last time I tried it but, to be honest I don't remember what ver. of BOINC I was running at the time.

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