When computer restarts-only one fah starts

[robjustice]

Im leaving Thursday night and will be gone for a while. I found a program to allow my computers to restart once a day, however during testing I have found that when it does restart it only opens one of the three fah programs that I have running. It only starts the last one that I added to the reg, to autostart. Is there a way to have all three reset when the computer reboots???
Thanks in advance,
Rob

[Ploaf]

That's interesting. I suppose you could put the client shortcuts in the startup menu with the -local flag. I have no idea if it would work and I had a problem with my dedicated box. I put the shortcut in the startup folder so that I could just hit the reset switch to reboot in case I found that it locked up. Anyway it started and then stopped during the boot while I was watching it. This only happened once and it was a standard reboot but it's notable.

[thefly]

I'm not running multiple clients so i'm not really sure.

But what about writing a batch file that opens up all your clients after the boot ??

[robjustice]

Im not really sure how to make a batch file to open all of them. Any help would be great. I checked in msconfig and it only shows, c:\program files\folding@home\f@h.exe only one time, shouldn't it show it three times for three clients? If worse come to worse I will run one each, and have it reboot every 12 hours.

[Hugo 59]

Originally posted by Would71
We have PC users who don't know how to do batch files? Oh woe is me.. *sigh* Now I feel REALLY old.

You have PC users who don't even know what a batch file is.:confused:

[Ploaf]

I used nothig but Macs until a few years ago and was dragged kicking and screaming into the wintel world. Never even needed a batch file, but I did have fun watching my extensions load while my puter smiled as a warning that I would need conflict catcher to figure out which extensions were bumping into each other.
Come to think of it Applescript would be absolutely perfect for this.ahh memories.

[Stanman]

If you use EM and put it in the startup folder it workks fine, but you need to remove the client that is starting now from the registery or you will have problems. ;)

[thefly]

Originally posted by robjustice
Im not really sure how to make a batch file to open all of them. Any help would be great. I checked in msconfig and it only shows, c:\program files\folding@home\f@h.exe only one time, shouldn't it show it three times for three clients? If worse come to worse I will run one each, and have it reboot every 12 hours.

Well, I'm not running mult clients over here. but lets say your running 3 clients. in directories called fah1 fah2 and fah3 under program files.

you would write a batch file that calls each one, one after eachother.

C:
cd\progra~1\fah1
fah.exe
cd\progra~1\fah2
fah.exe
cd\progra~1\fah3
fah.exe

save it as a bat file and stick it in the start up for windows once you've tested it.

Might work well.

[Paiynn]

Originally posted by Stanman
If you use EM and put it in the startup folder it workks fine, but you need to remove the client that is starting now from the registery or you will have problems. ;)

Do you put 3 shortcuts to EM in the starup? And whats the significance of running 3 clients on one machine? Doesnt it in turn take 3 times as long to do the 3 units compared to if you had just done one at a time?

EDIT: Ok, I found the part about opening more instances of fah in EM, but I still have the other question about time.

[thefly]

Well, running many clients does slow down the Wus at the begining for sure. But the idea is that you will still be working in the even of a network failure. So you machine keeps on going an completes it's wus and by the time that is done, the problem is fixed.

[Paiynn]

Ahh, kind of how my Wu's are done now, but the server isnt responding :rolleyes: