Using the KISS principle, why not run it as the SETI folk suggest, using a cron entry? (From the README)Am Do, den 22.04.2004 schrieb Rick Stevens um 01:32:
Those should be "/etc/rc.d/rc3.d" and "/etc/rc.d/rc5.d".
Whether /etc/rc.d/rcX.d or /etc/rcX.d does not matter, because
$ file /etc/rc3.d /etc/rc3.d: symbolic link to `rc.d/rc3.d'
Alexander
If you want setiathome to be started automatically, you can
set up a cron job. Add the following line to your crontab:
0 1,5,9,13,17,21 * * * cd <setidir>; ./setiathome -nice 19 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
Where <setidir> is the directory where the setiathome client is installed.
This cron job will attempt to start the client once every four hours.
If it is already running, the next invocation will do nothing.
If the client is not running, it will be started.
There will, of course, be on average 2 hours of dead time between jobs. If you have a really fast CPU that can turn a work unit in 6-10 hours, then you might consider setting the cron line to run every 2 or 1 hours.
I'm not sure I can see any advantage to the script, and it appears to be a lot more complicated.
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