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Can't quit Terminal?
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Casey Tschida Send message Joined: 14 Mar 01 Posts: 3 Credit: 168 RAC: 0 |
Hi Is this right? With SETI "Classic" you could quit the Terminal and the SETI@Home process would continue but with SETI "BOINC" it doesn't. Thanks! |
AthlonRob Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 378 Credit: 7,041 RAC: 0 |
Sorry, I'm not an OS X user, so I apologize if this doens't make sense in OS X... Start a terminal, navigate to the boinc directory, and run boinc with a: ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-darwin-whateveritis &> logfile & ...then type exit and hit enter, close the terminal, and boinc should continue running. (Rom made a comment when last I told somebody how to do it, I didn't have them logging ... you're welcome, Rom) Rob |
Tom Saxton Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 11,482,227 RAC: 0 |
You can also use the "cron" facility to automatically run boinc when your Mac starts up. With the old SETI@Home client, I had it launch the client at startup and then again every hour. That way if the client quits because of some communication problem, it gets relaunched within an hour. If the client was already running, it would just exit. The new client works the same way. If you don't know how to configure cron, try Googling. MacDevCenter and MacOSXHints have discussed it on their sites. Tom Saxton |
Casey Tschida Send message Joined: 14 Mar 01 Posts: 3 Credit: 168 RAC: 0 |
Hi Thanks! That seemed to do the trick. |
Aardvark1917 Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 15,447 RAC: 0 |
... > Start a terminal, navigate to the boinc directory, and run boinc with a: > > ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-darwin-whateveritis &> logfile & > > ...then type exit and hit enter, close the terminal, and boinc should continue > running. ... Rename the file "boinc" (minus the quotes) so you don't have to keep typing the ludicrously long name. Just click the name under the icon and retype it. |
P. T. Rourke Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 154,963 RAC: 0 |
Even better: create a file called seti.sh In that file (edit it with your favorite text editor; TextEdit will do), type ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin > logfile.txt & Save this file in the boinc directory. In the terminal, go to the boinc directory and type chmod +x seti.sh (that makes the shell script executable). Now, just type ./seti.sh in the Boinc directory whenever you want to start it. |
fillmeup Send message Joined: 11 Apr 03 Posts: 12 Credit: 38,125 RAC: 0 |
I have also used the "&" at the end successfully to keep the client running when the Terminal is closed (./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin &). I have not used the logfile option. What does that do? |
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