Not sure I've got the syntax just so, but you should be able to append a line in your rc.local to start it up like a daemon. Bear in mind that, unless I'm mistaken, the daemons started up by the rc.local are all "kernel" owned jobs, i.e. su. So you'd probably want to setuid to your regular user in the command line.
so, and please fix the syntax I'm sure to mess up, but something like
#/bin/bash setuid (# for your usual account) nohup ./setiathome -verbose & < 2 < your.mail@domain.net ;
crap, I hope that's almost right. Also, may want to try that disowning thing too, on a line after this starts. Oh, and should that be -verbose or --verbose? I've never run it yet, I have no idea. As usual, read the man for the rc.local to get some of that stuff ironed out. And I'm only fairly certain I've got those stdin redirections channeled correctly for the runtime options.
Say, who owns it after you disown it? Does the system? and does it inherit the previous owner's permissions?
<offtopic> Well, script kiddies and 1337 h4X0r5, please feel free to debug me. I have as yet to do an actual intsall, heck I've only ever _used_ a Linux box for about 10 min. total. But I read A LOT and I'm hoping to very soon defect. I'm not trying to Karma Whore, I really want to know how I'm doing. THX! </offtopic>
When I run setiathome with "nohup setiathome &" it runs fine and does what its made to do. But, in a few hours my HD is full. Seti or something is getting about 1% of my HD every 5 to 10 minutes. So, how do I get back that once empty 46 Gigs of HD? I want to run Seti but I do need to use this machine for other things.
Thanx in advance, keep those cards and letters comming folks.
wow! that is not good.
and, it has never happened to me.
Im gonna read up on nohup and see if it could be related.
do you have any reason to believe that it is seti doing it?
mike
NOBODY reads my email
then who would want to anyway
Mike, For sure its seti. I tried it a couple of times with ONLY setiathome running. With Seti off, no problems
bob@boxone:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 49G 2.1G 44G 5% /
bob@boxone:~$
Thats how it is now, no seti running. Seti is in my home folder, should I move it?
What happens if you run it without the nohup command?
Mike
NOBODY reads my email
then who would want to anyway
Hey, how do I do that? I did post in "Newbs"
Like this
in the dir where seti is:
"./setiathome"
let it run like this and see if space is being taken as before. If not, then we know it is nohup causing the problem. Then we just need to figure out what is going on.
Mike
NOBODY reads my email
then who would want to anyway
di||itante, Okay, running "./setiathome" and my disk was 95% free when I started.
We shall see.
Thanx for the help!
di||itante, Can I close the terminal where I started setiathome?
(This is the last message displayed while the client works.
To see progress messages between now and completion of
processing, operate the client with the -verbose option.
You can also see the progress of the client by looking at
the 'prog=' line in the state.sah file.
-verbose ????
"prog=" in the "state.sah file" Where do I find this file?
I can "see" the processor activity with Gkrellm and check run time with "ps -e"
so I don't anything else do I?
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