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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: Akbash 1.0.6 - cgminer watchdog (smart metering, H/W monitoring, emails, HTTP)
by
jddebug
on 05/07/2012, 00:40:42 UTC
Program seems to work alright, but every now and then I do experience some crashing that akbash doesn't help with. But otherwise the program is fantastic. Are you in the market for some critique/feature requests?

  • Yahoo is terrible (no forwarding/pop features for new users, messages occasionally make it through but many do not), can you add proper support for GMail?
  • Include FAQ with akbash download, as a readme (which it is)?
  • Support .bat as well as .lnk for launching cgminer?
  • Support attempting to reset network adapters before resorting to rebooting Windows?
  • Enable/Disable email status updates option, instead of "set it to infinity minutes" work-around?
  • Open source! Cheesy
  • Make the akbash output text more human readable?
  • Email a portion of the akbash log as an attachment in emails?

Hell, with just better email support I'd donate some coin your way.

Thanks.  Could you post more details of cgminer crashes that akbash does not detect.  cgminer/akbash config files?

regarding your list:

- Yahoo is terrible (no forwarding/pop features for new users, messages occasionally make it through but many do not), can you add proper support for GMail?

   I'll try to add/test with GMail in the next version.  I hate google, but most people like the co.  So sure, I can support it.

- Include FAQ with akbash download, as a readme (which it is)?

   We'll do.

- Support .bat as well as .lnk for launching cgminer?

   It should be supported now.  Let me know if it does not work for you.  Lnk is just an example of how to wrap a long command line, set working directory etc.

 - Support attempting to reset network adapters before resorting to rebooting Windows?

   Not sure how this would help.  Would need more info on the kind of problems you are experiencing. I could enable/disable network devices, but if your router is a toast, it is kinda beyond akbash reach.

 - Enable/Disable email status updates option, instead of "set it to infinity minutes" work-around?

   Already done in version 1.0.6

 - Open source! Cheesy

  For now, it is not an open source.  I don't see any reason why it would help anything.

 - Make the akbash output text more human readable?
 
  Need some examples.  The logs are programmer's logs. You can disable debug/verbose logs by pressing 0 or 1 (or change logging level in the config file).

 - Email a portion of the akbash log as an attachment in emails?

   How many "last bytes"?  Configurable?  The whole log?  Attachments, means MIME (multipart) etc.  Not sure if I want to get into this.
   Maybe last 2000 bytes sent only when a serious problem occurs?  Not sure, have to think about this one some more.



Most all of that sounds great. Looking forward to the next release.