Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:03:51 -0700 (PDT) From: dan@mostgraveconcern.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/19780: SETI@home port startup script fails Message-ID: <20000708060351.9640A37B76F@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 19780
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: SETI@home port startup script fails
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 07 23:10:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dan O'Connor
>Release: 4.0-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD pandora.mostgraveconcern.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #36: Thu Jul 6 06:25:52 PDT 2000 root@pandora.mostgraveconcern.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PANDORA i386
>Description:
Installation and registration for the SETI@home port (setiathome-2.4) work OK, but the provided startup script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh does not work properly. When the script is run, you get a new shell prompt with user set to 'nobody', and setiathome doesn't start.
>How-To-Repeat:
Attempt to start SETI@home:
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh start
>Fix:
The 'su' command in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh script is missing the '-f' option:
su -m ${seti_user} -c \
"(cd ${seti_wrkdir}/${i} && exec ${PREFIX}/bin/setiathome -email -nice ${seti_nice} >/dev/null &)"
The script works fine if the '-f' switch is added to the above line:
su -fm ${seti_user} -c \
"(cd ${seti_wrkdir}/${i} && exec ${PREFIX}/bin/setiathome -email -nice ${seti_nice} >/dev/null &)"
It took me a long time to figure this one out. A patch by the port maintainer would be much appreciated, and would save new SETI@home users much frustration...
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