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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