HOWTO: Starting SETI when Linux Starts

[Shak]

Hiyas,

Add the following script into your /etc/init.d/ substituting /home/shak/seti1 for your SETI directory:

#!/sbin/runscript
 checkconfig() {
         if [ ! -e /home/shak/seti1 ]
         then
                einfo "Creating /home/shak/seti1"
                 mkdir /home/shak/seti1
         fi
         if [ ! -e /home/shak/seti1/user_info.sah ]
      then
                 einfo "Setting up SETI@home for the first time"
                 cd ${SETIATHOME_DIR}
                 ./setiathome -login
         fi
 }
 start() {
         checkconfig
        ebegin "Starting SETI@home"
         cd /home/shak/seti1
         ./setiathome -nolock -proxy croccomp.no-ip.com:5517 >&/dev/null&
         eend $?
 }
 stop() {
       ebegin "Stopping SETI@home"
         killall setiathome
         eend $?
 }

You can also swap the S@H arguments on the end.

Then add this to the startup by adding

/etc/init.d/setiathome start

To /etc/conf.d/local.start

There may be some slight differences for different distros for the local.start and the /etc/init.d

Shak

 

[Shak]

Originally posted by Pho
Cool thanks, if you have two seti processes running on a 1 processor machine does it affect anything at all?

This script starts 1 process, for a 2 processor one you have to have another script called seti2

exedanni: It could be cleaner but TBH I was just coding it for me to start with, and found that SETIDIR didnt work because it defines it as Gentoo's SETI dir /opt/setiathome where mine isnt there.

Shak

 

[Shak]

uhuh! But it would be better if it was a GUI file to use the KDE startup scripts.

Add it to /home/dezyboy/.kde/autostart or add use it through the control panel, where there should be an autostart bit.

Alternativelty, just save the current session and then it will use that every time

Shak

 

[Shak]

Originally posted by Dezyboy
Right i'm on the right track now..... Just faceing the wrong way !

LOL!

I had to look that one up TBH, never used KDE myself.

ShaK