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authorStefan Bethke <stb@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-09 23:21:46 +0000
committerStefan Bethke <stb@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-09 23:21:46 +0000
commit72f96b8a1bea46a1fbce8678213f549b03bd4835 (patch)
tree79c16da29515eca0f207b8ebb7b084028e523df8 /astro
parentCorrect distfile fennerage by upgrading to 1.8.1. (diff)
Explain manual set-up when one wants to run multiple processes, or let
setiathome run under a different user id. Suggested by: "Stein M. Sandbech" <stein@ife.no>
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=18712
Diffstat (limited to 'astro')
-rw-r--r--astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.132
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.1 b/astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.1
index 47fa61dda816..ae6756739f2c 100644
--- a/astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.1
+++ b/astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.1
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ and will pick up where it left off.
requires about 0.5\ MBytes of disk space in it's working directory, and about
12\ MBytes of memory. If you have ample physical memory, it's work load
should be almost undetectable.
-.Pp
+.Ss Starting setiathome
This port to FreeBSD includes a start-up script (usually found in
.Pa /usr/local/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh )
that starts
@@ -48,7 +48,35 @@ directory
and lets you register with or log in to
.Tn SETI@home
by calling it with the argument
-.Li register .
+.Ar register .
+.Ss Setting up setiathome manually
+If you'd like to run
+.Nm
+on a SMP system, and therefor would like to run multiple
+.Nm
+processes at once, or would like it to run under a different user ID than
+.Sq nobody ,
+you have to set up one or more suitable working directories yourself.
+.Pp
+For each
+.Nm
+instance you'd like to run, create a directory, make it owned by the user
+you'd like to run
+.Nm
+as, and run
+.Ic setiathome -login
+in that directory.
+.Pp
+Then, arrange for
+.Nm
+to be started automatically. You can easily do so by adding a line similiar
+to
+.Bd -ragged -offset indent
+.Li */10 * * * * cd
+.Va working directory
+.Li && Nm -email >/dev/null
+.Ed
+to the user's crontab.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl login