Hi everybody !

Sorry for posting this here I know it's off topic and I should have posted it in the help
section but it will be faster here.

When I want to run boinc I open terminal and type
cd /boinc ENTER
./boinc ENTER

What I would like to do is create a script file to launch boinc from
the finder. I know I have to create a text file and save it with .command extension but
I don't know what to write in the text file it self.

I have tried
cd /boinc ./boinc
but it's not working...it would have been too easy.
There's something missing to make it work on one line.

Another thing I would like to do eventually is to lauch boinc at startup as a service. I would
like it to run for all users (currently two) and invisible if possible. Meaning that I could see
it running only by looking at the process view.

If it's not possible I could at least put it in the "launch item" folder but it would run just on
one users.

Thanks for the help.

Best regards
Marc

well, i have a partial solution. it's partial because sometimes the script doesn't launch for me.

#!/bin/sh
cd /path to boinc folder
./boinc


keep me posted. you could always download a functional script and just modify the code inside with textedit. for example, someone has some seti/folding scripts for download. i can't remember, but i think versiontracker lists them.

good luck. not sure why mine doesn't work at times.

Slightly different here:

I use a script file with:

cd /path_to_boinc_folder
./boinc >> boinc.log &
ps

This redirects the output to a log file. The >> ensures it appends to, rather than replaces the log file, and the '&' tells it to run in the background.

This means that it will carry on running even when you are logged out or another user is logged in.

I stick the 'ps' line in, just to check that it launched OK.

If you want to see the last few lines of the log, type:

tail boinc.log

or

tail -n 50 boinc.log

for the last 50 lines.

If you need to stop boinc, type

ps

and note the PID number, then type

kill nnnn

where nnnn is the PID number

Thanks to both of you.
I had adopted idfitter solution. it works fine.

Best regards
Marc