[K12OSN] Seti...

[Rob Owens]

I assume you're talking about running seti at home as a
local app on the terminals, right?  If not then you'll
have a bunch of instances of seti at home all running on
the server, which seems wasteful.

-Rob

--- Shawn Powers <spowers at inlandlakes.org> wrote:
> Ok, waaaay OT question. :)
> 
> I'm trying to make an rc file so that my thin
> clients will run seti at home 
> in the background. (Sneaky, eh?)
> 
> I can get the program to start, make a folder based
> on the hostname, and 
> start to crunch numbers -- but for some reason, the
> process is killed 
> off shortly after the thin client boots.  I can't
> seem to keep it running.
> 
> If I go to the local shell of the thin client, the
> rc file loads and 
> runs happily.  If I don't put an & after the
> setiathome executable, the 
> thin client hangs and won't continue booting... 
> Ugh.  Here's my current 
> script:
> ----
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> mkdir /tmp/swapfiles/$HOSTNAME
> cd /tmp/swapfiles/$HOSTNAME
> cp /etc/user_info.sah .
> /usr/bin/setiathome &
> ----
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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