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Subject: Re: ICC Connection Closings ???

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 01:17:28 09/24/02

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On September 23, 2002 at 16:35:42, pavel wrote:

>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

Was it the dos batch file that used a loop to simulate a pause?  If so, and you
use windows nt+ that doesn't work.  I once wrote a 3 line program to do what
sleep does for windows (only alot worse ;) since I don't really know how to do
that yet).

JW



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