I have an exponent that was completed while a Linux box was misconfigured to NOT have permissions to write the temp files. It looks like it never checked in its results. It did have permissions to handle writing results.txt, but didn't have the ability, so it seems, to write NEW files, which seemed to be needed to send the results to IPS. (This has been corrected, and the new exponent is running fine). However, it wasn't corrected before it went on and started the next exponent. I know the result reasonably close enough -- I have the non-prime masked residue from the results.txt file. How can I turn in this "orphaned" exponent, so that IPS still gives me credit for the work, and is it possible to recover the last 16 bits of the residue for George? (If it isn't possible, and you want me to just "restart" it, I do have the saved intermediary files about 4 days prior to completion, which COULD be resumed, I suppose, with the exponent simply re-added to the bottom of "worktodo.ini"). I imagine this is best, because we'll get the FULL residue without losing more than 4 days' work, but I'd like to know where Scott and George think I ought to go with this.... _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
