"connect client to account"
 

When I created an account at mersenne.org, it said i could link my client to the account. But I can't' find a help file, can't find an option in the software, so how do I connect my client software to my account? I run mprime on linux.

[code]bill@Guilty-Spark:~/mprime$ ./mprime -m
[Main thread Feb 3 18:56] Mersenne number primality test program version 28.7
[Main thread Feb 3 18:56] Optimizing for CPU architecture: Core i3/i5/i7, L2 cache size: 256 KB, L3 cache size: 6 MB
Main Menu

1. Test/Primenet
2. Test/Worker threads
3. Test/Status
4. Test/Continue
5. Test/Exit
6. Advanced/Test
7. Advanced/Time
8. Advanced/P-1
9. Advanced/ECM
10. Advanced/Manual Communication
11. Advanced/Unreserve Exponent
12. Advanced/Quit Gimps
13. Options/CPU
14. Options/Preferences
15. Options/Torture Test
16. Options/Benchmark
17. Help/About
18. Help/About PrimeNet Server
Your choice: 1

Use PrimeNet to get work and report results (Y):

You must first create your user ID at mersenne.org or leave user ID blank
to run anonymously. See the readme.txt file for details.
Optional user ID (Dubslow): Dubslow
Optional computer name (Guilty-Spark):
Computer uses a dial-up connection to the Internet (N):
Optional proxy host name:

Accept the answers above? (Y):
Main Menu
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This doesn't answer my question. I have run mprime for a couple of weeks, as "anonymous", now I want to connect the software to my account. Starting mprime doesn't give me the text on how to connect.

However, I put my accountname in the prime.txt file, now it's connected.

Also, it took me some trial and error to find that I can start mprime with the -m option for a menu.

Thanks.

[QUOTE=christine;425221]This doesn't answer my question. I have run mprime for a couple of weeks, as "anonymous", now I want to connect the software to my account. Starting mprime doesn't give me the text on how to connect.

However, I put my accountname in the prime.txt file, now it's connected.

Also, it took me some trial and error to find that I can start mprime with the -m option for a menu.

Thanks.[/QUOTE]

Yes sorry, my post was meant to be a demonstrative example, on both how to bring up the menu (with [c]-m[/c]) and how to use it. Sorry for my overly extreme brevity :smile: (and as you note, all the menus do anyways is fiddle with the text files).

Any linux user knows that any new program has to be run first with "program -h" :razz:

[QUOTE=LaurV;425269]Any linux user knows that any new program has to be run first with "program -h" :razz:[/QUOTE]

That's how I found the -d option initially. -m is below that so I didn't read through to that.
I'm happy now, the web site shows my cpu and the progress my computer makes. For what it's worth.

[QUOTE=christine;425458]That's how I found the -d option initially. -m is below that so I didn't read through to that.
I'm happy now, the web site shows my cpu and the progress my computer makes. For what it's worth.[/QUOTE]
Welcome to the project, and to the forum! Part of the strength of this whole undertaking is that every contribution is valued. Thanks for what you are doing! :grin: