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From: dan@mostgraveconcern.com
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Subject: ports/19780: SETI@home port startup script fails
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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:       
>Date-Required:
>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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