Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 19:50:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/51759: Maintainer update: astro/setiathome (manual page fix, etc.) Message-ID: <200305270250.h4R2oBpt057893@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/51759; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Mikhail Teterin <Mikhail.Teterin@murex.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/51759: Maintainer update: astro/setiathome (manual page fix, etc.) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 04:48:53 +0200 On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:00:42PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Cyrille! > > Your changes to the setiathome.sh startup-script now lead to shell > errors on startup -- missing quote. I added the quote, and hit another > error. I'll be sending you my update -- including the upgrade to 3.08 > for FreeBSD in a separate e-mail. Please, take a look. that part has been completly rewritten using an external wrapper... > As far as the new start-up script, I'm not sure it is worth the extra > shells (per CPU) to run to automaticly restart setiathome if it exits. ditto. > Even if you are convinced, such auto-restarting is desirable (I'm not), > it should be one sleeping shell per machine -- not one per CPU, don't > you think? My dual CPU box has four setiathome-owned processes runing > instead of 3. Someone's 8-way monster will have 16 instead of 9 :-) done. > Finally, with the amount of shell scripting required for this, may be, > it would be easier to write the seti-helper in C? too complicated... everything was done using our stock sh :) see you. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net
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