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| Seti and Linux - Step by Step Recently, I have read several posts by people
brand new to Linux, asking how to run Seti.
Here is my Step by step process
Log into your System as the root user
Open a Command window
(Similar to opening a DOS box in windows)
Create a new user called seti by typing the following
adduser seti
Set a password for the user "seti" by typing
the following
passwd seti
The program will prompt you for a "new" password
and ask you to enter it a second time to confirm it.
Next, log in as your new seti user by typing
su seti
The system will not ask you for a password, since
as the root user, you are considered GOD and can
login as any user.
When you created the seti user, the system set up
a directory. You need to change to that directory
by typing
cd ~seti
Yes, you need the tilde (that ~ character)
Next, to get the Seti Client installed, the easiest
way is to type the following
wget ww2.parkut.com/seti303
chmod 775 seti303
./seti303
The Seti@Home program will start running
and present you with the setup question
Answer as applicable, and the Seti Program will
download a Work Unit, and begin crunching.
Welcome to SETI@home.
We use your email address to identify you.
Please type:
1 to set up a new account (first-time users);
2 to log into an existing account (returning users).
Your choice (1 or 2):
Once the program is crunching, type a control-C
to stop the Seti Client
Enter the following command to get Seti To run
in the background. (This is the Linux equivalent
of running a service, even when logged off).
./seti303 &> /dev/null &
To get Seti to start automatically you need to setup
a cron job that will automatically start (or re-start)
seti in the background. Type the following commands
wget ww2.parkut.com/seti.txt
crontab seti.txt
This downloads a small text file that tells your system
to start or re-start seti every 10 minutes. It does no
harm if seti is already running, the program recognizes
it is running and won't try to run a second copy.
If everything went according to plan, if you enter the
following command, you will see seti303 at the top of
the list of running processes (similar to windows task manager)
top -n 1
Now, you are done, and you can close the window
by typing the commands below
exit
exit
(the first exit logs off your new user, seti)
the second exit closes the root command window.
If there are any errors, I am sure someone will point
them out to me.
There are variations of this of course, depending
if you want different user names, or you want (or
need) to use a team cache server.
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Nice step by step Parkut! |
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 sargeeldSgm RetiredPremium
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Raeford, NC | reply to parkut
Yeah, that should be in the FAQ if it is not already. |
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 opus74Deep ThoughtPremium
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Thanks...
Will try it on the SuSE machine.
LRR |
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 GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
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Then do we logon to root or seti to run SETI? |
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 LiontaurLets Get Boincing AlreadyPremium,MVM,ExMod 2004-06
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Salmon Arm, BC | reply to parkut
Very nice job Bill!
gbcue, logon as seti or 'su seti' from root. Whichever is easier for you. The idea with *nix is to not do anything as root if you don't have to.
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said by Gbcue:
Then do we logon to root or seti to run SETI?
Once you follow the steps above, as long as your computer is turned on, the seti client program will run.
It will start automagically without any further need for you to login as the user "seti". You will be able to check at any time to see if seti (or any other program) is running by issuing the command
top -n 1
which will produce a display similar to this
8:51pm up 47 days, 23:27, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 1.03, 1.00
69 processes: 66 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.6% user, 0.5% system, 0.4% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 125108K av, 116888K used, 8220K free, 0K shrd, 39708K buff
Swap: 257000K av, 27220K used, 229780K free 27772K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
22163 seti 17 1 14940 14M 640 R N 98.8 11.7 11344m seti303
25973 root 10 0 1044 1040 820 R 0.9 0.8 0:00 top
1 root 8 0 472 428 404 S 0.0 0.3 0:04 init
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1 edit | reply to parkut
Thank You very much for this great mini-Tutorial Crunch Addict!
I had SETI running in less than 5mn!!! Now, how do you PRINT-SCREEN? I did the SHIFT-CONTROL-C and -V to show my console content, but nothing's happening 
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opus74Deep ThoughtPremium
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Thanks Again!
Up & running w/ SuSE 8.
This should definitely get "sticky" or FAQ status.
Keep On Crunchin' !
LRR
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opus74Deep ThoughtPremium
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kudos:1 | reply to parkut
 Quick Question:
How does one view progress (a la SETI SPY) on this ?
Thanks, in advance.
LRR
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 yendiswpgSid Says Waddle On, FriendsPremium
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Winnipeg, MB | reply to parkut
parkut my only question is what you've included in the seti cron file.
Does it point the client to one of the team caches?
How about -nice 19? I notice that you're sample 'top' shows nice 17...
Sid |
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yendiswpgSid Says Waddle On, FriendsPremium
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Winnipeg, MB | reply to opus74
you can install Richard Varga's ksetispy which is in some ways better that the windows version of setispy. |
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said by b_zen:
Thank You very much for this great mini-Tutorial Crunch Addict!
I had SETI running in less than 5mn!!! Now, how do you PRINT-SCREEN? I did the SHIFT-CONTROL-C and -V to show my console content, but nothing's happening
if you're running in the kde environment there is the ksnapshot utility that you can use
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1 edit | reply to yendiswpg
8:34pm up 48 days, 23:10, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.01, 1.00
69 processes: 67 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.3% system, 99.4% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 125108K av, 117028K used, 8080K free, 0K shrd, 36752K buff
Swap: 257000K av, 27004K used, 229996K free 29236K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
22163 seti 17 1 15696 15M 628 R N 99.8 12.3 12759m seti303
Seti runs "nice" by default, in this particular machine, you can see it's running at 99+ percent nice
To have the client run from a team queue, you would need to edit the seti.txt file. First, log in as the seti user, then edit the file. For example to use AnArky's queue, make it look like this instead, and update the cronjob
*/10 * * * * ./seti303 -proxy 63.113.217.41:5517 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
or type the command below to download a new text file
wget ww2.parkut.com/setiaa.txt
and then update your cron job by entering the following command
crontab setiaa.txt
Hope this helps. |
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 L0GiXWhen all else fails, theres always L0GiXPremium
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South Bay,CA | reply to parkut
Great Going Parkut!
Clean it up format wise a bit then it should be a FAQ!
-L0GiX |
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Thanks parkut, you just helped the TeAm to a p41.4 |
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b_zenPremium
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Saint Louis, MO | reply to parkut
Why isn't this thread a sticky yet? Up above on the first page. |
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LiontaurLets Get Boincing AlreadyPremium,MVM,ExMod 2004-06
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Salmon Arm, BC | It's not sticky material. It's already in the FAQ, that's enough IMHO
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b_zenPremium
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Saint Louis, MO | You mean it's not general enough? As in addressing the general population, I stand corrected.
I think it may be wise to put it in The Links We Like, or at least put a SETI for Linux link, cause you know most people won't go to the FAQ on their own, they can find all the info for Linux easily if we would put such a link.
Just my opinion...
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