I don't know if he was aware of this problem, but
finally I had to obey because he insisted that
his machine runs slower if mprime runs on it,
and that it doesn't matter if other users agree to let
me run mprime on their machines,
while he as the administrator forbids it.
I use teh script
Simon Burge writes:
You may want to try what I do with some of our machines - instead
of killing and restarting the program, send it a STOP or a CONT
signal (I assume Linux has these signals available, I'm a BSD and
SysV person).
Yes, Linux has them, being a mostly POSIX-compliant
I think, for many with security concerns, it would be preferable to set up a
"Prime Proxy" of some sort.
--- snip ---
As a network manager, could I point out that it really doesn't help
security at all, though it may make the security manager's job
easier. The point is, one "hole" in a
-Original Message-
From: Brian J Beesley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 1998 3:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aaron Blosser
Subject: RE: Mersenne: RE: any large groups that run GIMPS software on
corporate computers?
I think, for many with security concerns
Thanks to George and Brian for their attempts to solve my problems.
I should say that
1. The NFS problem was already solved here when the system was
properly configured, before I was told to remove mprime.
2. It had not been possible for me to run mprime on a local disk
because in order to
George wrote:
If there are other ideas on how to make mprime or Prime95 less
intrusive please forward them to me by private email.
Hi George,
I'd send this via personal email, but I wanted to see what other people
think...
One of the reasons, maybe the biggest, that US WEST disapproved
This is probably not the input you're looking for:
I joined GIMPS in the beginning of 1997
and installed mprime on most (i.e. 10) of the
P133-200 Linux boxes in our research group.
After some months, our group boss told me to remove it
from all except the one I myself am working on.
I first
Hi Lars and list members,
At 06:13 PM 11/24/98 +0100, Lars wrote:
But sometimes it happened that mprime went mad
due to the fact that it had to write intermediate files
onto an nfs mounted remote disk, which sometimes
failed because the network wasn't properly set up.
It then tended to steal
