TTY permissions problem

**mcdougrs** · 06-22-2003, 05:03 PM

Hey there folks,

Well I finally got my other PC up and running... well kinda. I put RH9.0 on it and its ok, I need more RAM, but I tried to setup my folding to start automatically and it says that there are perm problems with the ttyXXs I first had it on tty12 and figured that maybe there was just somehting funky with putting it on such a high tty so I dropped it to tty6 same thing... Anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? I would really like to have it pop over to a higher tty!

Thanx,
Ryan

**Schotty** · 06-22-2003, 05:50 PM

how are you starting it exactly?

**mcdougrs** · 06-28-2003, 01:56 AM

Sorry it took me so long to reply but I'm trying to start it by putting the script in /etc/init.d/ directory and then making it executable. Then I ran chkconfig -add folding and it added it to run in run levels 2,3,4 & 5. But it never seems to be running! >

The script is as follows:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#chkconfig: 345 99 99
#description:  Start &#124; Stop &#124; Restart &#124; (Check the) Status of the FAH Linux console client
source /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
FAH=&quot;/home/mcdougrs/folding/FAH3Console-Linux.exe&quot;
cd /home/mcdougrs/folding/ &gt;/dev/tty6
RETVAL=1
case &quot;$1&quot; in
        start)
                echo -n &quot;Starting Folding@Home client ... &quot;
                su mcdougrs -c &quot;$FAH &gt;/dev/tty6 &amp;&quot;
                RETVAL=$?
                ;;
        stop)
                echo -n &quot;Stopping Folding@Home's FAH3Console-Linux.exe ... &quot;
                killproc FAH3Console-Linux.exe
                RETVAL=$?
                ;;
        restart)
                $0 stop
                /usr/bin/sleep 1
                $0 start
                RETVAL=$?
                ;;
        status)
                status FAH3Console-Linux.exe
                RETVAL=$?
                ;;
        *)
                echo &quot;Usage: $0 {start&#124;stop&#124;restart&#124;status}&quot;
                exit 1
                ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

Thats it. All I get in the boot log is a permission denied error

**pbharris** · 06-28-2003, 03:03 AM

hello,
i use crontab to run mine:

Code:

[pbharris@bugs ~]crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.5016 installed on Sat Apr  5 21:30:35 2003)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
0 * * * * cd /home/pbharris/seti; ./setiathome -nice 19 &gt; /dev/null 2&gt; /dev/null
[pbharris@bugs ~]

make one by doing a crontab -e and then entering soemthing like this.

Code:

0 * * * * cd /home/ian/gah; ./gah.exe -nice 19 &gt; /dev/null 2&gt; /dev/null

**mcdougrs** · 06-28-2003, 12:58 PM

Hey pb,

I would but the problem would still remain that I want to have it show up on one of my TTY screens so that I can see the progress if I want to. Yours has it going to /dev/null I'm sure If I had mine doing the same it would ok.

Thanx for the suggestion though,
Ryan