I'm Not Dead

[BitSpit]

Just thought I'd check in so you people don't worry too much. I've been devoting all my free time since Friday to Armada. Since my Linux knowledge is rather weak, it takes my a while to do a few things (btw, what's a good CLI text editor that simple like Edit or Notepad? I'd rather telnet to server from my desktop.) Still have several bugs to work out. think has a tendency to not process. It'll start and then exit 5 seconds later. telnet to the client and it'll start just fine. I wasted a lot of time trying to get two Compaqs going. They're still down. Compaq has modified the BIOS on the NIC and it apparently doesn't send the PXEClient identifier to the server. Gotta do some research on that. If I can't PXE boot it, I can always resort to a floppy. On the plus side, I have access to the files for every client by telnetting to the server (that old Cyrix MediaGX. chosen because it's too slow for FaD and it's an AT system. Always on!)

That's it for now. I'll get stats posted when I get a chance.

[Gouki]

Thanks for the update BitSpit...glad to know you're still alive and kickin.

Btw...anyone else besides me think of Monty Python & The Holy Grail from the subject of this thread? lol

"I'm not dead"
"You're not foolin anyone ya know...you'll still be dead in a moment'
"I don't want to go on the cart..."
"Oh don't be such a baby..."
"I feel happy...I feel hap..." <WHACK>

[jmebonner]

LOL Gouki, I thought of the same high pitched whine

My all time fav is the knight in the holy grail... No arms, no legs, but still talkin' trash.

Good to hear from you BitSpit. Thaks for doing the stats for us all the time, you deserve a break!

[DPA]

take a vacation man! i was wondering myself if you were dead or not, and figured that if you hadn't said anything by wednesday then it was official.

HOLY GRAIL RULES YOUR LIFE!

[Gouki]

Originally posted by jmebonner
LOL Gouki, I thought of the same high pitched whine

My all time fav is the knight in the holy grail... No arms, no legs, but still talkin' trash.

"Well look you stupid bastard...you got no arms left!"
"Yes I have!"
"Well look!"
"It's just a flesh wound..."

[tony_j15]

"You Lie!"
"C'mon you pansy!"

Good to hear from you Bitspit!

[eagle1]

Since my Linux knowledge is rather weak, it takes my a while to do a few things (btw, what's a good CLI text editor that simple like Edit or Notepad?

An easy one to use is pico (if you have it installed).

[BitSpit]

pico, huh? I'll have to install that when I get home.

I fixed the problem with the Compaqs. Needed to update the BIOS. Now the problem I have is THINK. It refuses to think. It give me the error (371) THINK already running. This is on a fresh boot. I checked and there is not another copy running when it gives me that error. It's driving me nuts. My other problem is server doesn't recoqnize command options when run from a script. That makes it impossible to have each node installed automatically. All I want to do is:

./server -receive
./server -allocate `ls j1*.log` `hostname`

(can you tell I've been doing some reading?)

All the the server sees is ./server so it tries to load and of course says that it's already running (which it is).

And now I have to deal with this network at work. Very crappy network cable.

Edit: thread at FaD forum with info about my problems

[eagle1]

you have to add an & after the first ./server .

Like:

./server -receive &
./server -allocate `ls j1*.log` `hostname` &

See if that works.
Also, I only use ./server -auto & so ...

[BitSpit]

I'll try that in addition to the static linked client when I get home.