[QUOTE=snme2pm1;532322]yet the icon that appears in web browser tabs is identical. Perhaps a different colour?[/QUOTE]My artistic skills verge on nonexistent, but I have made a blue version of the favicon. It will start appearing as your browser cache expires.

If anyone wants to make a mersenne.ca logo of sorts, or at least a favicon, feel free to submit such.

[QUOTE=James Heinrich;532326]My artistic skills verge on nonexistent, but I have made a blue version of the favicon. It will start appearing as your browser cache expires.

If anyone wants to make a mersenne.ca logo of sorts, or at least a favicon, feel free to submit such.[/QUOTE]

I reckoned that this subject might move to a popular vote!
Yet what is your best suitable originating material format that you might be able to sustain and further edit?
Or perhaps such notion of edit apparently seems void?

Generated from the front page graph using [url]https://www.favicon-generator.org/[/url]
Zip file contains the various icons, and the png is the source image.
Here's their suggested html code:
[CODE]<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="/apple-icon-57x57.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="/apple-icon-60x60.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="/apple-icon-72x72.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="/apple-icon-76x76.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="/apple-icon-114x114.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="/apple-icon-120x120.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="/apple-icon-144x144.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="/apple-icon-152x152.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-icon-180x180.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="192x192" href="/android-icon-192x192.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="96x96" href="/favicon-96x96.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png">
<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#ffffff">
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="/ms-icon-144x144.png">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff">[/CODE]

[QUOTE=axn;532334]Generated from the front page graph[/QUOTE]I like it.

The favicon (in all its myriad incarnations) are regenerated from the most recent graph once a week. It won't change much of course, but since I wrote the code already to generate everything it may as well be fresh. :smile:

[QUOTE=James Heinrich;532377]I like it.
[/QUOTE]

I am pleased that axn: [url]https://www.mersenneforum.org/member.php?u=528[/url] was so helpful.
Yet it is your choice as to what graphic to apply for such icon generation purposes.
Perhaps the top portion is unwanted noise.
Perhaps the line graph might be more exaggerated so as to not be muted at low resolution.

Anyhow you now have a multicolour flag with slightly lifted left edges...
What will Aaron consider in response?

PS: Appoligies, s/Arron/Aaron/

Back to business, even if only for a little while.

Some of you may be aware that I converted my HP workstation to [I]Ubuntu 19.10[/I] so I can learn how to use it, a little. I will skip the the rest of the story here.

I finally managed to get a CUDA10 variant of [I]mfaktc[/I] to run. It just needed a library update.

I have been feeding it, [I]mfaktc[/I], by hand by doing manual downloads from James' request page. I studied his bash script. I lot of what was in there was relative to using a RAM drive. With this in mind, I removed all the code relative to using one. Being an antique programmer, it did not take me long to understand the flow.

First off, the [I]/bin/bash[/I] folder only appears as a link to another location. So I changed that part. [I]Wget[/I] and [I]curl[/I] were already on my system. Only [I]curl[/I] needed an update. Doing some searching on the web, I found the proper file name extension. I called my greatly modified script [I]mfa.sh[/I]. The web page said to compile it like so:

[CODE]chmod +x mfa.sh[/CODE]It preceded without any errors. I try to run it:

[CODE]./mfa.sh[/CODE]It returns this:

[CODE]bash: ./mfa.sh: /home/norman/mfaktc/^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[/CODE]Using the full path name: [I]./home/norman/mfaktc/mfa.sh[/I] returns basically the same.

The path above is what I put in the first line of the script. The script is in the same folder as [I]mfaktc[/I]. The only part of this I am not sure about is the "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" statement. The location does not seem correct. The [I]Wget[/I] argument appears basically similar to the one in my Windows batch file, so I replaced it with mine. I left the original as a reference comment.

The script is below so if anyone spots anything, please comment.

[CODE]#!/home/norman/mfaktc/
# Simple bash file to automatically retrieve TF >1000M worktodo from mersenne.ca
# and submits results back. Should be called in your mfaktc working directory.
# Will loop infinitely, submitting results and getting more work as needed.
# Requires Wget: sudo apt-get install wget
# Requires cURL: sudo apt-get install curl
#
# To exit: 1) Press ctrl-C once while mfaktc is running
# 2) Press ctrl-C once while script is sleeping 10 seconds before downloading more work
# 3) Do not press ctrl-C otherwise. It could be dangerous for your work.


# Work fetch options
#TFLimit=69
#maxAssignments=10
#useRAMDisk=0

if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "mfaktc is already running, exiting"
sleep 30
exit
fi

trap "echo received signal \"SIGINT\"$'\n'script will exit once the results are sent." SIGINT
while true
do
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="./lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" ./mfaktc.exe # Use your command for mfaktc

if [ -s worktodo.txt ]; then break; fi

echo "mfaktc has run out of work or ^C was pressed!. Downloading more work in 5 seconds"
sleep 5

[ $? -eq 130 ] && break

if [ -e results.txt ]
then
echo "Sending results to mersenne.ca"
echo $(date '+%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S') >> ~/mfaktc-results-submitted.log
curl --form "results_file=@results.txt" https://www.mersenne.ca/bulk-factors.php >> ~/mfaktc-results-submitted.log
if [ $? -ge 1 ]
then
echo "cURL failed"
break
fi
cat results.txt >> ~/mfaktc-results-submitted.txt
rm results.txt
fi

echo "Retrieving worktodo from mersenne.ca"
# wget "https://www.mersenne.ca/tf1G.php?download_worktodo=1&tf_limit=$TFLimit&max_assignments=$maxAssignments&biggest=0" -O - >> worktodo.txt
wget "https://www.mersenne.ca/tf1G.php?download_worktodo=1&tf_min=68&tf_limit=69&min_exponent=3400000000&max_exponent=3409999999&max_assignments=50&biggest=0" -O - >> worktodo.txt

done

[/CODE]

Have you been editing it on Windows? The ^M looks like the CR from the Windows default CRLF line ending (UNIX uses just a LF).

The first line should point to the interpreter you want to run the script. In most of my bash scripts it's:
[code]
#!/bin/bash
[/code]

So if /home/norman/mfaktc/ is a directory you would be telling it to run a file called ^M in that directory. Which probably doesn't exist.

Chris

[QUOTE=chris2be8;532556]Have you been editing it on Windows? The ^M looks like the CR from the Windows default CRLF line ending (UNIX uses just a LF).

The first line should point to the interpreter you want to run the script. In most of my bash scripts it's:
[code]
#!/bin/bash
[/code]So if /home/norman/mfaktc/ is a directory you would be telling it to run a file called ^M in that directory. Which probably doesn't exist.

Chris[/QUOTE]


Actually, I did edit it on Windows using Notepad++. It has the ability to change the coding. So, I changed it, and placed [I]/bin/bash[/I] back. It now appears to run. The script is exiting where [I]$? -eq 0[/I] is. I am guessing this is sometime of command line parameter. I do not know what this needs to be.

[QUOTE=storm5510;532559]The script is exiting where [I]$? -eq 0[/I] is.[/QUOTE]
The "$?" gets replaced with the exit code of the previous command. An exit code of "0" indicates that the program ran successfully.

Doing this as the very first command seems quite pointless. Maybe this code was checking the outcome of a command that you removed while editing the file?

[QUOTE=nordi;532573]The "$?" gets replaced with the exit code of the previous command. An exit code of "0" indicates that the program ran successfully.

Doing this as the very first command seems quite pointless. Maybe this code was checking the outcome of a command that you removed while editing the file?[/QUOTE]

And to add to that answer, the -eq means "equals".

[QUOTE=nordi;532573]The "$?" gets replaced with the exit code of the previous command. An exit code of "0" indicates that the program ran successfully.

Doing this as the very first command seems quite pointless. Maybe this code was checking the outcome of a command that you removed while editing the file?[/QUOTE]

I commented the section, recompiled, and it is running they way it should, from what I see.

It is placing its results save files in the folder above:

[CODE]cat results.txt >> ~/mfaktc-results-submitted.txt

[/CODE]I changed it to this:

[CODE]cat results.txt >> ~/mfaktc/mfaktc-results-submitted.txt[/CODE]A log file was also being created in the same location. I changed its path to point to the program folder, like above. I imagine James made this rather generic because of not knowing what anyone's folder structure would be. Perhaps he can elaborate on his usage of catching an exit code at the top. Now that I know what it is, it seems this would only be useful in calling the script from another process and passing it the code.

This HP is not my primary computer, which means I can leave it run for days, or weeks, if I wanted to. It would only be periodically necessary to change the exponent request range. I changed this part because the GPU in the HP is rather slow.