Change from Console to Service

[Hades12]

I have one machine I want to change from the Console to the Service. What is the best way to do this and keep the WU I am currently working on?

Thanks

 

[BillLeeLee]

Close the console, then right click on the shortcut to the console and add "-configonly" to the target line.

Double click the shortcut, and you go through the config process again - just press enter until you get to the advanced settings, and choose to see them. Answer 'y' to the question of running it as a service. Afterwards, restart the comp and from that point on, the F@H client will run as a background service until you tell it to stop doing so (by config again)

 

[Hades12]

Like this?

"C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winfah.exe -configonly"

 

[BillLeeLee]

Yep yep. The configonly just tells it that you only want to configure it when the shortcut is run. Alternately, there's the -config tag, which tells it to enter configuration everytime you start it, and then it begins to fold afterwards.

 

[KodiakStar]

I have one machine I want to change from the Console to the Service. What is the best way to do this and keep the WU I am currently working on?

Thanks

After running the -config / -configonly flag

it is the third option

1) User name - the name you wish to fold under
2)Team - 33
3) Launch at startup, installing this as a service - If you have admin. rights you can install as a service, after you complete all the steps , reboot and it will be running as a
service

Once you have that set, and you restart your computer, it will be in service mode, you can check by looking at your system info (Ctrl-alt-del on w2k / xp) and you will see something like fahcore_XX.exe and the CPU % you have it set to

 

[Mattman]

After you set it up to run as a service, you don't even have to restart your computer if you don't want to. Just go to Start, Run and type services.msc and right click on the FAHyadayadayada service and pick start. Then you're off and folding!

 

[KodiakStar]

True.

Typicall whenever i got done finishing installing fah as a service, was once i was doing the last of some other updates / installs on a system so was doing the final reboot that it needed anyways

 

[Hades12]

OOps asked the wrong question.

I need to go from the Graphical to the service.

 

[unhappy_mage]

Exit from the console, and then follow this guide. Select "run as service" when it asks.

 

[rogue_jedi]

download the console client into the FAH directory. remove the FAH graphical client from the startup menu (or disable it from starting by unchecking the start with windows box on it) then run the console (from command line if you want, doesn't matter) with the '-configonly' option. then turn on 'run as service' when it asks, and set whatever other options you need. then go into the services dialog (start->run->services.msc) and start the FAH....... service.

if you want forceasm, before starting the services go into regedit (start->run->regedit) and find "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services" then find the FAH service under there. find the key that gives the command to start it, and then add '-forceasm' to that. then go into the services thing and start it.
<- add about 6k to that, the numbers are off

 

[CaptRingold]

Maybe I never did anything right, but I've always had to use HideitX to keep the console from popping up upon reboot I think

 

[Kvothe]

Maybe I never did anything right, but I've always had to use HideitX to keep the console from popping up upon reboot I think

That depens on the OS you're using, XP and 2000 can run the console as a service which negates the need to have the console actually up. If you are using any of the 9x series of windows, you'll need to use something like that, or there are hacks to get the client to run as a "service" of sorts for 9x.

 

[Mattman]

Maybe I never did anything right, but I've always had to use HideitX to keep the console from popping up upon reboot I think

If you're using HideitX, you're doing it in true old school fashion. I had to use that little guy for a couple of years when I had mostly Win9x machines. I used to have a lot of fun creating and messing up command lines.

 

[Hades12]

Thanks Guys.