Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:31:42 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dpilgrim@uswest.net, crh@outpost.co.nz Subject: Re: SETI@home has teams now! Message-ID: <XFMail.990525133142.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199905250354.XAA05538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On 25-May-99 Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Is there a reason not to use setiathome's '-nice' switch and just nice
> it to a low priority? I think that would be good enough for most
> people. Also, I believe idpro requires root privileges; nice does
> not. I'd rather not use root when I don't need to.
I run it like this ->
idprio ${seti_nice} su -m ${seti_user} -c \
"(cd ${seti_wrkdir}/${i} && exec ${PREFIX}/bin/setiathome -email 2>&1 >/dev/null
&)"
So it still runs as nobody.
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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