setiherder - GTK+ application for managing SETI@home clients

    Version 0.3, beta release Copyright Brian Naylor, April-August 1999
    <brian+seti@sackheads.org>
    http://www.sackheads.org/setiherder/

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  setiherder is a GTK+ interface that can monitor and control a set of 
remote SETI@Home clients for you under a single gui.  It simplifies 
management of numerous hosts, making the task of finding alien 
intelligence that much easier. 

  setiherder was inspired by Andy Sloane's ncurses program, setiview, and
the fact that I found it an extreme PITA to check and restart all my 
screened setiview sessions on 20 different machines.

Software required:
  - SETI@home client.  Tested with versions 0.42 - 1.1.
    http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
  - GTK+ 1.2  (gtk 1.2.2 or better is suggested, as 1.2.{0,1} have a bug
               that affects the expanded dialog)
  - perl 5 (on client machines)

  Read the INSTALL file for installation instructions, and PORTING for 
information on porting setiherder to other OSes (as well as a list of
those currently supported.)


What you need to know right off the bat:

    Add a client with the 'Add client' button.  Setiherder will 
  automatically save all your client info.  Edit those clients and
  perform operations on them by right-clicking them in the list.

  Executing seti@home:

      You must install ./scripts/setid on each client machine.  Read
    ./docs/README.setid for configuration issues.  This requires perl 5.

    The old process spawning method from previous versions of setiherder
    is no longer supported - it was complicated, hard to port, didn't scale,
    and allowed for no spiffy features (that I will include later.)

  That's it for now.  More later.  Have fun.  Send problems, comments, 
flames, praise, patches, etc. to brian+seti@sackheads.org.

