[plug] setiathome lockfile

Trent Lloyd trent at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Aug 22 12:55:01 WST 2002


try creating another copy of the data files on another directory
not sure tho

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:13:04PM +0800, bob wrote:
> After an awkward close I cannot restart the setiathome client. I get
> 
> Couldn't get lock file.  This is probably because
> another instance of SETI at home is running in this directory.
> Each instance of SETI at home must run in a separate directory.
> 
> I can't find any sign of either lock.txt or lock.sah mentioned as the
> lockfiles  in the documentation (oh ,needless to say there are no other
> seti clients running). And in fact the same message applies to all users
> I've tried (even the one's who've never run setiathome before).
> 
> Anyone have an idea as to what's happening?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> bob
> Cave canem...te necet lingendo.
> 

-- 
Trent Lloyd [Lathiat]

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