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      Questions That Will Probably Wind Up Being Asked Frequently 
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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.


ANSWERS
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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 setiathome process is somehow winding up in "buffered I/O mode".
 This should happen a lot less now that 0.3 uses setid to spawn processes,
 but if it does happen, then that means 1) you've probably got a weird OS :)
 and 2) Comm.pl doesn't know how to get a pty on your OS.  This means I 
 probably don't, either.  If you could figure it out and send me a patch,
 I'd be quite grateful.


 
