| From: Srinivasan R
| Subject: [Ilugc] Automatic starting of SETI@Home
1. Write a small script to start your application. It may look
like this:
#!/bin/sh
# Name: start_seti.sh
# Description: Script to start SETI@Home
<do some validation here if you want>
<write the command to start SETI@Home here>
</do some validation here if you want>
#End of script
2. Make it executable
#chmod 755 start_seti.sh
3. Copy it in /etc/rc.d/init.d directory
4. Go to /etc/rc.d/rc?.d directory, where '?' is a number
specifying the run level you would boot in [1]
# cd /etc/rc.d/rc?.d
5. Provide a soft link to the shell script here
#ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/start_seti.sh S99start_seti
6. do a telinit to make init re-read the config files ...
(or reboot)
#telinit <run level>
This should start the SETI program every time you boot into
the given run level.
[1] Read the comments in /etc/inittab to know about runlevels.
HTH
saha
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