From 72f96b8a1bea46a1fbce8678213f549b03bd4835 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Bethke Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:21:46 +0000 Subject: 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" --- astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.1 | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'astro') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3