Jonathan Miller wrote:

I am currently trying to work out what is going wrong with the credit scripts...

My credit here at the project appears -- right now anyway -- to be restored to normal and includes an update to what it was before the recent credit zaniness.

Keep up the good work, Jonathan! :-)

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I DIDN'T GET ANY :(((( I went from 1st on my team to 14th. And one stats sight shows me with no CPDN credit! To paraphrase a paraphrase in an insurance commercial - "Well, did you know that cobblestones really can hurt you?" :))

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From quadrillions inside, to ZERO outside.
You can take a look to my signature for evidence... ;-)
As I understand, credit export was done.
The result of this export for boincstats.com, for example, is (or may be) total chaos in the section "BOINC combined credits".
Just take a look for fun...

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Hi

I don't know if this is a "fix" for the credit problem, I found that if I removed the project using Boinc Manager and then added the project again using Boinc manager I found that Boinc Manager showed Climateprediction.net with the right amount of credit in both my project account and also in Boinc manager stats.

Fingers crossed!

Regards

Jon

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It maybe more simple than that:

CPDN might have gotten things corrected or some sort of workaround was done.

I didn't restart the project, just pushed 'update' of the CPDN-project and I am back to about 111.000 and not billions. The latest BOINCstat-update also shows a vastly negativ number in latest point differential.

From quadrillions inside, to ZERO outside.

Already fixed! Respect!

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It's currently a work around.
See Jonathan's post, which is now a fair way down this thread.

Earlier I wrote:

My credit here at the project appears -- right now anyway -- to be restored to normal...

And now,, too, at BOINCstats and Free-DC...w00t.

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Morning folks!

Ok, good news for the moment!

@Les: One last question, you talked about a 'manual' run of the script in the news thread. What's the difference to a conventional run?

Normally, the script(s) run/used-to-run, as a "cron job". i.e. with a timer.

Since all of the "servers", (which are now virtual machines running in a VM on a big physical machine), were moved to VMs earlier in the year, the scripts won't run, so they've been run manually whenever Jonathan has time. (They need to be run in "quite periods", because of the big load imposed on the server.)

However, something has "gone more wrong" with the script(s) since the recent server failure and rebuild, as a lot of people have noticed, so Jonathan has run the script one line at a time, taking several hours.
This worked.

And that's were we're up to.

PS
You can read Jonathan's post about a mile down this thread, for what he's doing.

Morning folks!

Ok, good news for the moment!

@Les: One last question, you talked about a 'manual' run of the script in the news thread. What's the difference to a conventional run?

In Unixland "manual" means some overworked someone has to log in to some server and tweak all the parameters of the script until it works right. Similarly in Windowsland.

The contrast is, to some ancient script that needs to be updated but would take a week to make it work again after the latest OS and BOINC and . . . updates.
That would be the "old" "deprecated" " automatic(but not any more)" script. (whose author may have died by now and wrote it for Windows 3.1)

That's the main difference -- that someone living in this century, decade, year etc. has to personally interact with it to get it to work at all.



Not uncommon in these later decades of the "Computer Age"

Manual means that some person paid less than a plumber has to watch the script run and fix it step-by-step.
Automatic means that someone else, long ago, in a totally different environment, made the "trickles" customization work. (flawlessy, on-time, dealing with the "then-BOINC")

Les got there ahead of me, and was more concise and polite.

Thanks Les.


And who among us would choose to try and make a 10-year-old DOS .Bat file run on 64-bit Linux or Windows 9 now? I (even discounting the "virtualization" which runs "right out of the box" ( except for the totally different storage paradigm, and, and, and ")))

It's like the Red Queen -- you gotta run fast just to stay still

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To think there is a whole generation of computer nerds growing up who don't remember .bat files.

It's not even "remember", it's "know" !

But they don't know about any scripting at all. bat files would "force" us to learn about scripting, somehow. And it was good :)