distributed.net client upgrader

This tool hasn't been updated since 1999 or maybe 2000. If it's useful to you, please feel free to update it and send me a link to the new URL for it.

This is a utility to assist managing large installations of the dnetc program.

The latest version is 0.21 which besides only working on Linux/i386, works pretty well. If you have another platform get it anyway and send me a mail, I can have it fixed shortly. (Except for windows where you will have to send me a patch).

Install

It's really really easy.

• Download the program from http://develooper.com/dnetcup/dnetcup.pl.
• Set the execute bit (chmod a+x dnetcup).
• Install the LWP:m:Simple module if it's not already installed. (As root: perl -MCPAN -e 'install "LWP::Simple"').
• Give someone whom you haven't talked to in a long time a call. She will appreciate it.

Configuration

This is really really really easy.

• Put a dnetcup.config file and your dnetc.ini up on a webserver where dnetcup can reach it. The name of both can be just about anything you would like it to be. The format of the dnetcup.config file is as follows:
  ini = http://url/to/dnetc.ini
  There is an example here.
• (Optional) Put dnetcup in your crontab, for example like this:
  24 2 * * * /home/user/dnetc/dnetcup http://tmtowtdi.perl.org/~ask/dnetc.txt ~/dnetc
  to have it run automagically every night at 2.24.

That's it, you are now ready to try it out by running ./dnetcup url.to.config ~/dnetc.. If you have any problems, questions, ideas or patches, they are welcome on the dnetcup@lists.netcetera.dk mailinglist.

Todo

• use LWP::UserAgent instead of LWP::Simple so we can tell what went wrong when it doesn't work.
• The client name mapping should be an external file.
• Windows support?