Hi

Do any of you guys have a script you want to share, that i can call from cron to make sure BOINC is running, and a script that does not start more than one version of BOINC?

If you could help me out here, that would be nice. Im no good at shell programming :)

/Biker

Argh I mean Linux ;)

I don't bother with any shell script. If boinc is already running a second attempt to start it just reports

2004-10-07 18:21:01 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running

And terminates.

Phil
<BR>Liverpool, UK
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You should be able to run this as a cron job, e.g.,

$ crontab -e
0 1,5,9,13,17,21 * * * cd /home/trane/boinc/ ; ./boinc_3.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu > /dev/null 2> /home/trane/boinc/boincerr

Save your job with :wq to exit the editor. Basically, this is the same method used to run the classic seti@home. To monitor progress, you can look at the slot's state.sah task, watch client_state.xml or download my BOINCprog app @ Trane's Programming Projects (other apps can be found at boinc.dk). An instance should give you a load of 1.0 for each CPU running.

trane