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John Beardmore · Guest

Have just installed seti at home alpha-unknown-linux-gnu variant on an
EV4 Alpha Debian v3r3 Alphaserver 2100 to test it and give it something
useful to do.

Having unpacked the file to /root/seti/alpha-unknown-linux-gnu, I ran

./setiathome

which terminated complaining that it couldn't get a lock file.

Thought this might be down to permissions on the directory so set those
to 777, but still no joy, same error.

Has anybody seen this problem and spotted a fix ?

Thanks, J/.
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John Beardmore

Paavo Hartikainen · Guest

John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> writes:

Keith Harwood · Guest

Paavo Hartikainen wrote:

John Beardmore · Guest

In message <41ee0709$0$25421$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, Keith
Harwood <vitalmis@optusnet.com.au> writes

Gary Heston · Guest

In article <41ee0709$0$25421$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
Keith Harwood <vitalmis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

John Beardmore · Guest

In message <10utr3jm8deq101@corp.supernews.com>, Gary Heston
<gheston@hiwaay.net> writes

John Beardmore · Guest

In message <41ee0709$0$25421$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, Keith
Harwood <vitalmis@optusnet.com.au> writes

Keith Harwood · Guest

John Beardmore wrote:

Keith Harwood · Guest

John Beardmore wrote:

DiskMan · Guest

Well version 1 was opensource but ppl were hacking the code thinking they
know better and was screwing up seti packets .... so the stopped it.. Will L
G

"Keith Harwood" <vitalmis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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DiskMan · Guest

Of the seti server... I ran into this problem myself ... to fire it up just
use:
/setiathome -nice 15 -nolock -proxy 66.28.250.122

Here's a little init script to fire up Seti when ever you boot your
computer, just change the paths to reflect your own setup:

..lf 1 /etc/rc.d/init.d/seti
#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 30 60
# Source function library
.. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

################################################
#This script is a sample script to allow the seti
#client to run as a service on a linux box.
#
#Install Notes :
#
# customize the two first variables of the script
# make a symbolic link from
# You have to link /etc/rc.d/rc.<your run level>/S99seti
# to this file to make it run.
# start the service (or reboot Smile

)
# check it works with the status option
#
#
#How this works ?
#
#When using the script, your seti client will always
#run in the same folder (that you can choose) ,
#this is a "clean" way to run it.

#The service can be:
# -launched with "/etc/rc.d/initd/seti start"
# -stoped with "/etc/rc.d/initd/seti stop"
# -restarted with "/etc/rc.d/initd/seti restart"
# -watched with "/etc/rc.d/initd/seti status"
# -be logged with "/etc/rc.d/initd/seti log"

#As the last option (log) in quite unsual,
#it is intended to be used with the cron daemon
#to allow users to log their progress in some file
#so that can get a good idea of there current score
#and progress.
#Here are the 2 lines to type in your crontab :
# SHELL=/bin/bash
# 30 0 * * * "/etc/rc.d/initd/seti log"
#You must have write permission on all the files
#to add it to your crontab.

#Author Stephane NICOLAS
#<snicolas@iad.ift.ulaval.ca>
#This program is distributed under the terms of the GPL.
#You can get a copy of it at
#http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/copyleft.html#translations
################################################

#This variable points to the client's executable directory
#change this value to define the location of your client.
#We do NOT need the client to be in your $PATH
SETI_CLIENT_DIR=/usr/scientific/setiathome-3.03

#This direcory contains the root of setiathome's workspace
#you can customize it.
SETI_DIR=/usr/scientific/setiathome-3.03

#This file is generated by setiathome and we need it
SETI_LOG_FILE=$SETI_DIR/state.sah

#this file is lock file we create to ensure one and
#only one client is launched
SETI_LOCK_FILE=/var/lock/seti.lock

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting computing seti: "
more ${SETI_DIR}/user_info.sah | awk -F = '$1 == "nresults" { print $2}'
cd $SETI_DIR
${SETI_CLIENT_DIR}/setiathome -nice 15 -nolock -proxy 66.28.250.122 >
/dev/null &
touch $SETI_LOCK_FILE
;;

stop)
echo -n "Shutting down seti: "
more ${SETI_DIR}/user_info.sah | awk -F = ' $1 == "nresults" { print
$2 }'
killall setiathome
rm -f $SETI_LOCK_FILE
echo
;;

restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;

status)
echo -n "Seti work unit completed: "
more ${SETI_DIR}/user_info.sah | awk -F = ' $1 == "nresults" { print $2}'

running=`ps -A | grep setiathome`
#thanks to Toan for this bug fix
if( [ "${running}" = " " ] )
then
echo "Seti client is not running."
else
echo -n "Seti client runs since "
echo ${running} | awk -F " " '{ print $3 }'
echo -n "The current work unit is completed at "
more $SETI_LOG_FILE | grep prog | awk -F "=" '{ print $2 } '
fi
echo -n "Last result returned at ("
more ${SETI_DIR}/user_info.sah | grep last_result_time | awk -F "(" '{
print $2 }'
echo ""
;;

log)
/bin/date >> $SETI_DIR/log
$0 status >> $SETI_DIR/log
echo "*******************************************" >> $SETI_DIR/log
;;

*)
echo "Usage: seti {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac


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