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Message 782978 - Posted: 16 Jul 2008, 10:23:51 UTC

Is this cron ok to check the client is up every 10mins? It seems to be ok, but I thought I'd ask the smart people :-)


1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * cd /home/r0b/BOINC ; ./run_client > /dev/null 2>&1 &

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Message 783025 - Posted: 16 Jul 2008, 17:46:11 UTC - in response to Message 782978.

I think a startup script which startup the boinc client at boot time and also ran in a loop and restart it if it's exiting would be more practicable.
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