Can't quit Terminal?

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!

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

Hi
Thanks! That seemed to do the trick.

...
> 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.

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.

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?