Farming with prime95.exe ...
 

Lost an almost completed 33m yesterday ... such is life in the corporate environment ... bit painful at times. And no, no backup.

So, I have a set of scripts that copies the client and work from a source machine to various targets and then executes prime95.exe locally. Does not require a user to be logged in, just requires the machine to be on and me and admin on the box. Works pretty well, but requires a bit of upkeep.

With this latest loss, I was thinking that I might be better off trying to run the client centrally ... all located on the same system and run it over the network. I would like to have this work, even if no one is logged in on the target system. I have been trying variations of the following line in a .BAT file that I push out to the target system and run:

\\gimpserver\prime\workstation1\prime95.exe

Which will run, but never seems to update the data files, even though I have set a 10 minute update.

Has anyone tried anything along these lines? I think that I need a bump to get going ... or maybe just some electric shock treatment.

You obviously tested the following: :rolleyes:

[code:1]COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS
----------------------
-An This is used to run two or more copies of prime95
from the same directory. Using this command line
argument causes prime95 to use a different set of
filenames for the INI files, the results file, the log
file, and the spool file.
Just use a different value of n for each copy of
prime95.exe you start.

-Wdirectory This tells prime95 to find all its files in a different
directory than the executable.
[/code:1]

This way you teach Prime to look for the update files on the correct directly of your central distribution server.

Luigi

Thanks Luigi. Managed to get it working ... turned out to be domain vs. workstation permissions.

Currently I am running each client in their own sub directory. I may try to run them all in one directory as a trial, but that makes me a bit nervous for some reason. We shall see how it goes ... ;)