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1) I upgraded my SETI@home client and now when I run setiherder it says
   a bunch of stuff about 'weird string' and to mail setiherder@sackheads.org!

2) When I start a client in setiherder, it says it's 'Working' and if I poke
   around on the remote box, it *looks* like it's working, but the percentage
   never increases in setiherder.

3) I'm using ssh to spawn remote processes, but it never seems to work!


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--(1)--
     I upgraded my SETI@home client and now when I run setiherder it says
 a bunch of stuff about 'weird string' and to mail setiherder@sackheads.org!

     Arg, they've changed the wording of the client's output again, or added
 more wonderfully informative intro text.  Give me a day or two and I'll put
 out an updated version.  (You might want to mail me and tell me there IS a
 new one.)

--(2)--
     When I start a client in setiherder, it says it's 'Working' and if I poke
 around on the remote box, it *looks* like it's working, but the percentage
 never increases in setiherder.

     Your method of spawning the remote process is defaulting to buffered I/O.
 (The client is working, but it only sends back its output when the default
 system I/O buffer fills up.)

     If you're using ssh, are you giving it the -t switch?

     If you're using something else, look through its documentation and see 
 if there's a way to put it into line-buffered mode.  (May be described as
 "force ppeudo-tty allocation" or somesuch..)

--(3)-- 
     I'm using ssh to spawn remote processes, but it never seems to work!
 
     Have you set up ssh-agent properly and have you run ssh-add in this 
 session?  See docs/README.ssh if this doesn't ring any bells for you.


 
