Author: pavel
Date: 13:35:42 09/23/02
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On September 23, 2002 at 16:28:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 23, 2002 at 15:40:38, Frank Phillips wrote: > >>On September 23, 2002 at 15:32:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On September 23, 2002 at 14:56:22, Brian Richardson wrote: >>> >>>>Hi. For the past several days, Tinker has been getting logged out of ICC >>>>(Connection closed message in Winboard debug file) pretty frequently and I don't >>>>know why. Tinker normally runs for a week or so totally unattended with no >>>>problems at all. >>>> >>>>Anyone else having this sort of problem? >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>>Brian >>> >>> >>>Possibly. I was watching Crafty last night and it played a game, finished, >>>and about 1 minute later got a "--timeout--" message and an instant disconnect. >>>I don't know how often this has been happening since I run a script that simply >>>logs it right back if it gets kicked off. >> >>Bob >> >>Would you post the script, please? >> >>My ISP times out after 4 hours; and while I automatically redial, xboard does >>not automatically reconnect. >> >>Frank > > >It is really trivial: > >#!/bin/csh >while (1) > mv ics.log.1 ics.log.2 > mv ics.log ics.log.1 > ics >& ics.log > sleep 5 >end > >The above executes the script named "ics" which is given below. The two >mv commands lets me keep the most recent 3 log files of everything ICC sent >to crafty as ics.log, ics.log.1 and ics.log.2.. the sleep 5 is to keep it >from logging back on too quickly. IE start two of the above and you have >a race to end all races. :) > > > > >#!/bin/csh >limit coredumpsize 0 >./killcrafty >setenv CHESSDIR /home/hyatt/ics >setenv ZIPPYPASSWORD <password> >setenv ZIPPYPASSWORD2 <password> >setenv ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY 1 >xboard -xexit -popupExitMessage false -icshelper /usr/local/bin/timestamp >-xanimate -geometry +0+0 -ics -zp -autoflag -icshost 204.178.125.65 -fcp >"crafty" -size small -initString "" -xreuse > > >The "killcrafty" script is something I run to make sure I don't have >crafty running already. IE I might start a test set and then forget and >log crafty on to ICC. "killcrafty" kills any running crafty executables >to avoid an obvious problem. ;) How about a winboard version of the script, for us windows suckers? I often keep my account running for few days, but it's really irritating when it gets disconnected after few hours. Dieter once posted a script, but I couldn't make it work. cheers, pavs
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