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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Chaps
I have a very annoying problem that arised today. Quicky on the background: had to re-install Debian Etch from scratch last year. Never mind why. Didn't take the time to re-install and configure the Boinc client so far, but today I did. Entered username and password and all was well, crunching again for my team (Team UF, if you care ;)). Started with some smaller chunks, done in just a few hours. Well, I just checked their status on the WCG page and found out they are reported from a weird host! My desktop has 'desktop' as hostname, but it's reported as 'tipaopa.com', a commercial site I don't have and, even more so, don't want any association with... I have no idea how that happened, but I want it fixed to get proper credit on my own hostnames! For the time being I suspended the client on the desktop machine. Any tips? Regards, Dutch_Master |
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Former Member
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Hi, Dutch_Master.
Firstly, hostnames are considered private information. Your device names aren't shown publicly anywhere on the site. Hostnames. Should be simple. Isn't. Linux has several places you can set a hostname. BOINC supposedly uses gethostname() to retrieve the primary name, but sometimes it gives surprising results. Start by grepping your configuration files, I think.... Host names aren't recorded permanently, either. Once you have fixed your naming problem, the new name will simply replace the old one. |
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Former Member
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I can see the hostname for a specific chunk that processed it on the results status page. It's on the personal page, not the public ones. Didn't specify that, sorry..
I'll start grepping then  Thx though! |
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Former Member
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What is "grepping?"
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Former Member
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It's a search program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep
Like "Googling", grepping is often used as a verb. |
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