AUGH I'm having problems getting Folding to work in Linux.

[muttley]

I'm new to Linux running Redhat 7.2 and can't get folding to run. I would appreciate any help.

muttley

 

[mgpaulus]

What kind of problems are you experiencing?? Some more info would be appreciated. I have folding running on several Debian/linux boxes @ home, including
a dual P3-550 machine.....

 

[muttley]

got Redhat 7.2 from a forum member.

I have a tar.gz file I know how to unzip/uncompress it. (Does it matter where I uncompress it? can I just cut and paste to a different location?)

I presume that I can make a folder say folding but the folder will not have the right access to files it needs. So where do I need to put files that I want to run.

how do I get the file to run? I have one that in GUI is a gear and when I double click on it it doesn't run. So if I go into superuser privledges or a command prompt or console what do I have to type in in the way of syntax to get it to run.

muttley

 

[mgpaulus]

Ok, slow down.... No need to panic....

First off, Folding under linux is a command line application. Not sure where you got the icon from, but I would not use it.

That being said....

I have my linux boxes configured to run folding at startup via an appropriate script in/etc/init.d/foldingathome & /etc/rd*.d. That's not too tough to set up. Instructions later.


I created a directory /foldingathome, and unzipped everything into that directory.
Then, as root, execute /foldingathome/FAH2Console.exe -config. This will ask you for your name & group id (Use 198, Pppllleeeassseeeeee????)

After the console program downloads the Core_65.exe file, and get's it work unit, kill it.

use top to make sure that FAH & Core_65 are both dead.

Once you are sure all is dead,
still being root, execute your /etc/init.d/foldingathome script with a start command.
then create the following links: (NOTE: the following /etc/init.d & /etc/rc*.d directory structure applies to debian. YOU will need to search your redhat box to figure
out exactly where to do this. It might be /etc/init/rc*.d, or something like that.)
ln -sf /etc/init.d/foldingathome /etc/rc0.d/K09foldingathome
ln -sf /etc/init.d/foldingathome /etc/rc1.d/K09foldingathome
ln -sf /etc/init.d/foldingathome /etc/rc6.d/K09foldingathome
ln -sf /etc/init.d/foldingathome /etc/rc2.d/S91foldingathome
ln -sf /etc/init.d/foldingathome /etc/rc3.d/S91foldingathome
ln -sf /etc/init.d/foldingathome /etc/rc4.d/S91foldingathome
ln -sf /etc/init.d/foldingathome /etc/rc5.d/S91foldingathome


run top again and make sure FAH and/or Core_65 is running.
If they are not, then give back another holler....
If they are, then log off as root, and forget about foldingathome.....

Here is the contents of my /etc/init.d/foldingathome:
#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop the foldingathome process

test -f /foldingathome/FAH2Console.exe || exit 0

case "$1" in
start) echo -n "Starting foldingathome"
umask 011
cd /foldingathome
exec nice -19 ./FAH2Console.exe >/dev/null 2>&1 &
echo "."
;;
stop) echo -n "Stopping foldingathome"
cd /foldingathome
for i in `ps -C FAH2Console.exe -C Core_65.exe | cut -c1-5`
do
kill $i
done
echo "."
;;
*) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/foldingathome start|stop"; exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0