folding@home on Suse 10

murrowman789 · 08-16-2006, 06:21 PM

i'm usually a slackware user. i fold on slackware fine. i get it to run in the background without trouble at boot time with rc.local.

i'm asking for a teammate that is trying to get f@h to run in the background or as a service.

i told him to get finstall, chmod +x and ./finstall. apparently that worked out. then i told him to edit rc.local to look like this:

Code:

cd /home/you/foldingathome
./folding start

he cant even find rc.local. says it isnt there. how does suse manage boot time processes?

any help?

liaty · 08-16-2006, 07:03 PM

Suse doesn't have a rc.local for some unknown reason. I tried creating one but had no luck. There is a boot.local script, but it's executed before the runlevel scripts.

murrowman789 · 08-16-2006, 07:16 PM

so is there no hope in running it at boot?

would cron work better?

abisko00 · 08-17-2006, 02:20 AM

/etc/init.d/boot.local should do the job.