Installing S@H on Linux (RH8) [newbie]

Ola A Johansson wrote:
Hi all!

I'm a total newcomer to this Linux environment, but I have for a long
time had an urge to try it.
Anyway, I just got RH8 installed (got it right this time I think) and
thought I'd get SETI@home running.
I went to download the client (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and allowed it to save
to Mozilla 1.0.1's default of desktop.
Now I can't find the file
And even if I found it I wouldn't be sure how to get it running.

Would some kind soul please give me a simple step by step instruction.

Sorry... But you need to read a few help files and notes.

There's already copious instructions on various web sites for s@h.
(Hint: Google.)


The saved file will be somewhere in your home directory tree. Search for
"i686-pc-linux-gnu" with the search/find feature on your file manager.
Then read the 'README' file you'll find in there.

Good luck,
Martin


--
---------- Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today.
- Martin - Teach him how to fish and he won't bother you for weeks!
- 53N 1W - - Anon
----------

Ola A Johansson wrote:
Hi all!

I'm a total newcomer to this Linux environment, but I have for a long
time had an urge to try it.
Anyway, I just got RH8 installed (got it right this time I think) and
thought I'd get SETI@home running.
I went to download the client (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and allowed it to save
to Mozilla 1.0.1's default of desktop.
Now I can't find the file
And even if I found it I wouldn't be sure how to get it running.

Would some kind soul please give me a simple step by step instruction.

Sorry... But you need to read a few help files and notes.

There's already copious instructions on various web sites for s@h.
(Hint: Google.)


The saved file will be somewhere in your home directory tree. Search for
"i686-pc-linux-gnu" with the search/find feature on your file manager.
Then read the 'README' file you'll find in there.

Good luck,
Martin


--
---------- Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today.
- Martin - Teach him how to fish and he won't bother you for weeks!
- 53N 1W - - Anon
----------

Ola A Johansson wrote in
:

Hi all!

I'm a total newcomer to this Linux environment, but I have for a long
time had an urge to try it.
Anyway, I just got RH8 installed (got it right this time I think) and
thought I'd get SETI@home running.
I went to download the client (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and allowed it to save
to Mozilla 1.0.1's default of desktop.
Now I can't find the file
And even if I found it I wouldn't be sure how to get it running.

Would some kind soul please give me a simple step by step instruction.

TIA /Ola J


Start with http://setifaq.org/faq.html#2.22

From there if you still have trouble you can give us more specific
questions.

Cheers,
Mark

Ola A Johansson wrote in
:

Hi all!

I'm a total newcomer to this Linux environment, but I have for a long
time had an urge to try it.
Anyway, I just got RH8 installed (got it right this time I think) and
thought I'd get SETI@home running.
I went to download the client (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and allowed it to save
to Mozilla 1.0.1's default of desktop.
Now I can't find the file
And even if I found it I wouldn't be sure how to get it running.

Would some kind soul please give me a simple step by step instruction.

TIA /Ola J


Start with http://setifaq.org/faq.html#2.22

From there if you still have trouble you can give us more specific
questions.

Cheers,
Mark

Ola A Johansson wrote:
Hi all!

I'm a total newcomer to this Linux environment, but I have for a long
time had an urge to try it.

Welcome to linux. You may find reasons to think better of it but you will not regret it.

Anyway, I just got RH8 installed (got it right this time I think) and
thought I'd get SETI@home running.
I went to download the client (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and allowed it to save
to Mozilla 1.0.1's default of desktop.

Go to mozilla.org and get the current version, 1.5, ASAP. It is as good as or better than
what you left in windows.

Now I can't find the file
And even if I found it I wouldn't be sure how to get it running.

Would some kind soul please give me a simple step by step instruction.

Download it again and put it where you can find it like in your home directory. Open a
commandline terminal.

mkdir newdirectory

mv download newdirectory

cd newdirectory

[unzip or whatever if necessary, instructions are on the download site, I forget]

../setiathome

answer questions and it starts running

This is the command line mode which is twice as fast as the graphics mode. No meaningless
pictures to look at and double the WUs processed.

Remember to restart it when you reboot.

If you keep forgetting to restart it on reboot, add these lines to /etc/rc.local

cd /home/you/newdirectory
/home/you/newdirectory/setiathome

Started this way it will be a root process.

To see the status of your WU without graphics create a file with these lines and chmod +x
filename

echo
cat /home/you/newdirectory/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat /home/you/newdirectory/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1
date
echo

=====

newdirectory is any name, seti is a meaningful name

you is your account name where you find yourself when you login, you@localhost

rc.local is recommended by RH as the place to add our own boot routines. There are other
ways. These are also called init scripts.

The simplest editor around is joe called as jstar. It is on the distribution disk but not
installed if you did a default workstation installation. Install joe, type jstar. There
are much better editors. This one is plain vanilla simple using the arrow keys.

--
I detest politics not for what it is but for what
it pretends it is not.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 2943

Ola A Johansson wrote:
Hi all!

I'm a total newcomer to this Linux environment, but I have for a long
time had an urge to try it.

Welcome to linux. You may find reasons to think better of it but you will not regret it.

Anyway, I just got RH8 installed (got it right this time I think) and
thought I'd get SETI@home running.
I went to download the client (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and allowed it to save
to Mozilla 1.0.1's default of desktop.

Go to mozilla.org and get the current version, 1.5, ASAP. It is as good as or better than
what you left in windows.

Now I can't find the file
And even if I found it I wouldn't be sure how to get it running.

Would some kind soul please give me a simple step by step instruction.

Download it again and put it where you can find it like in your home directory. Open a
commandline terminal.

mkdir newdirectory

mv download newdirectory

cd newdirectory

[unzip or whatever if necessary, instructions are on the download site, I forget]

../setiathome

answer questions and it starts running

This is the command line mode which is twice as fast as the graphics mode. No meaningless
pictures to look at and double the WUs processed.

Remember to restart it when you reboot.

If you keep forgetting to restart it on reboot, add these lines to /etc/rc.local

cd /home/you/newdirectory
/home/you/newdirectory/setiathome

Started this way it will be a root process.

To see the status of your WU without graphics create a file with these lines and chmod +x
filename

echo
cat /home/you/newdirectory/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat /home/you/newdirectory/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1
date
echo

=====

newdirectory is any name, seti is a meaningful name

you is your account name where you find yourself when you login, you@localhost

rc.local is recommended by RH as the place to add our own boot routines. There are other
ways. These are also called init scripts.

The simplest editor around is joe called as jstar. It is on the distribution disk but not
installed if you did a default workstation installation. Install joe, type jstar. There
are much better editors. This one is plain vanilla simple using the arrow keys.

--
I detest politics not for what it is but for what
it pretends it is not.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 2943

Matt wrote:
snip
echo
cat /home/you/newdirectory/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat /home/you/newdirectory/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1
date
echo
/snip

What a ghastly non-intuitive mess - reminds me of MSDOS
Give me WINDOW$ any day :-)

"Matt Giwer" wrote in message
m...
Ola A Johansson wrote:
Hi all!

I'm a total newcomer to this Linux environment, but I have for a long
time had an urge to try it.

Welcome to linux. You may find reasons to think better of it but you will
not regret it.

Anyway, I just got RH8 installed (got it right this time I think) and
thought I'd get SETI@home running.
I went to download the client (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and allowed it to save
to Mozilla 1.0.1's default of desktop.

Go to mozilla.org and get the current version, 1.5, ASAP. It is as good as
or better than
what you left in windows.

Now I can't find the file
And even if I found it I wouldn't be sure how to get it running.

Would some kind soul please give me a simple step by step instruction.

Download it again and put it where you can find it like in your home
directory. Open a
commandline terminal.

mkdir newdirectory

mv download newdirectory

cd newdirectory

[unzip or whatever if necessary, instructions are on the download site, I
forget]

./setiathome

answer questions and it starts running

This is the command line mode which is twice as fast as the graphics mode.
No meaningless
pictures to look at and double the WUs processed.

Remember to restart it when you reboot.

If you keep forgetting to restart it on reboot, add these lines to
/etc/rc.local

cd /home/you/newdirectory
/home/you/newdirectory/setiathome

Started this way it will be a root process.

To see the status of your WU without graphics create a file with these
lines and chmod +x
filename

echo
cat /home/you/newdirectory/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat /home/you/newdirectory/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1
date
echo

=====

newdirectory is any name, seti is a meaningful name

you is your account name where you find yourself when you login,
you@localhost

rc.local is recommended by RH as the place to add our own boot routines.
There are other
ways. These are also called init scripts.

The simplest editor around is joe called as jstar. It is on the
distribution disk but not
installed if you did a default workstation installation. Install joe, type
jstar. There
are much better editors. This one is plain vanilla simple using the arrow
keys.

--
I detest politics not for what it is but for what
it pretends it is not.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 2943

Matt wrote:
snip
echo
cat /home/you/newdirectory/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat /home/you/newdirectory/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1
date
echo
/snip

What a ghastly non-intuitive mess - reminds me of MSDOS
Give me WINDOW$ any day :-)

"Matt Giwer" wrote in message
m...
Ola A Johansson wrote:
Hi all!

I'm a total newcomer to this Linux environment, but I have for a long
time had an urge to try it.

Welcome to linux. You may find reasons to think better of it but you will
not regret it.

Anyway, I just got RH8 installed (got it right this time I think) and
thought I'd get SETI@home running.
I went to download the client (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and allowed it to save
to Mozilla 1.0.1's default of desktop.

Go to mozilla.org and get the current version, 1.5, ASAP. It is as good as
or better than
what you left in windows.

Now I can't find the file
And even if I found it I wouldn't be sure how to get it running.

Would some kind soul please give me a simple step by step instruction.

Download it again and put it where you can find it like in your home
directory. Open a
commandline terminal.

mkdir newdirectory

mv download newdirectory

cd newdirectory

[unzip or whatever if necessary, instructions are on the download site, I
forget]

./setiathome

answer questions and it starts running

This is the command line mode which is twice as fast as the graphics mode.
No meaningless
pictures to look at and double the WUs processed.

Remember to restart it when you reboot.

If you keep forgetting to restart it on reboot, add these lines to
/etc/rc.local

cd /home/you/newdirectory
/home/you/newdirectory/setiathome

Started this way it will be a root process.

To see the status of your WU without graphics create a file with these
lines and chmod +x
filename

echo
cat /home/you/newdirectory/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat /home/you/newdirectory/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1
date
echo

=====

newdirectory is any name, seti is a meaningful name

you is your account name where you find yourself when you login,
you@localhost

rc.local is recommended by RH as the place to add our own boot routines.
There are other
ways. These are also called init scripts.

The simplest editor around is joe called as jstar. It is on the
distribution disk but not
installed if you did a default workstation installation. Install joe, type
jstar. There
are much better editors. This one is plain vanilla simple using the arrow
keys.

--
I detest politics not for what it is but for what
it pretends it is not.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 2943

ComputerDoctor wrote:
Matt wrote:
snip
echo
cat /home/you/newdirectory/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat /home/you/newdirectory/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1
date
echo
/snip

What a ghastly non-intuitive mess - reminds me of MSDOS
Give me WINDOW$ any day :-)

A masochist I see.

Actually it is straightforward. It just prints the 5th line of one file and the 16th line
of another. For example head grabs the first five lines and tail let through the last one
of the five lines.

It is also the way that always works to avoid a lot more words on my part. If setiathome
is run in a directory named seti it would be simply

cat ~/seti/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat ~/seti/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1

But if you are working as root or as another user name it won't work because ~/ will look
in the root or username directory.

Unlike MS batch files, linux scripts are reentrant and that is exactly what batch files
are missing to make them useful.

--
When Bush graduated High School he gave new meaning
to being educated beyond one's intelligence.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 2963

ComputerDoctor wrote:
Matt wrote:
snip
echo
cat /home/you/newdirectory/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat /home/you/newdirectory/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1
date
echo
/snip

What a ghastly non-intuitive mess - reminds me of MSDOS
Give me WINDOW$ any day :-)

A masochist I see.

Actually it is straightforward. It just prints the 5th line of one file and the 16th line
of another. For example head grabs the first five lines and tail let through the last one
of the five lines.

It is also the way that always works to avoid a lot more words on my part. If setiathome
is run in a directory named seti it would be simply

cat ~/seti/state.sah | head -5 | tail -1
cat ~/seti/user_info.sah |head -16 | tail -1

But if you are working as root or as another user name it won't work because ~/ will look
in the root or username directory.

Unlike MS batch files, linux scripts are reentrant and that is exactly what batch files
are missing to make them useful.

--
When Bush graduated High School he gave new meaning
to being educated beyond one's intelligence.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 2963