RE: DAST: Multicast Beacon - lacrohn@cs.indiana.edu
Hi, Lynne -- Glad it's working for you.
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you haven't already.
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Mitch
At 01:01 PM 10/25/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> GREAT! Thanks for the quick reply!! It's working great!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch Kutzko [mailto:mitch@ncsa.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 11:52 AM
> To: lacrohn@cs.indiana.edu
> Cc: NLANR Multicast Beacon
> Subject: Re: DAST: Multicast Beacon - lacrohn@cs.indiana.edu
>
> At 09:36 AM 10/25/2004 -0500, Apache wrote:
> >
> > Contacting DAST re: Request for information about Multicast Beacon
> > From: Lynne Crohn <lacrohn@cs.indiana.edu>
> >
> > Question/Comment:
> > Is there a way to start the start_beacon.bat at windows
> > startup? We'd like it to run whether someone is logged
> > in or not, but we've only been able to add it to the startup
> > programs.
>
> Hi, Lynne -- You'll probably want to update to the latest release of the
> Win32 version of the Beacon. It should do everything you're asking for
> here.
>
> Mitch
>
>
> -------------------------
>
> Reply-To: <judson@mcs.anl.gov>
> From: "Ivan R. Judson" <judson@mcs.anl.gov>
> To: <ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: [AG-TECH] new windows beacon
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:58:28 -0500
>
> There's a new windows beacon distribution. It's here:
>
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~judson/common-1.1.win32-py2.3.exe
>
> This operates a bit differently, here are the details.
>
> This beacon install will put a Program Files->RTPBeacon menu item. Under it
> are the following entries:
>
> 1. Install Beacon Service (AutoStart)
> 2. Manually Start Beacon Service
> 3. Manually Stop Beacon Service
> 4. Remove Beacon Service
>
> Once this is installed, just go and pick #1, then go and pick #2. The beacon
> will fire up and you can go to http://beacon.dast.nlanr.net/ to see if you
> show up.
>
> I've fixed some reporting problems and other things, but most significantly
> I've made these two changes:
>
> - If there's an error with the beacon it now reports to the Application
> Event log.
> - The beacon runs as a windows service and can be managed using the standard
> windows services mgmt tools.
>
> --Ivan
>
>
> --
> Mitch Kutzko | mitch@dast.nlanr.net | mitch@ncsa.uiuc.edu | 217-333-1199
> Project: http://dast.nlanr.net/ | Personal: http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
>
>
>
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