Getting seti working on Mandrake 7.2.. newbie!

[smp]

I just installed mandrake on my system last night.. finally got the triple boot of my dreams.. only thing is.. I don't know linux too good.. I never even installed an app in it.. I downloaded the command line client.. and I double click it.. and nothing happens.. what am I doing wrong? Did I get the wrong one? I think it was the linux one.. I'm pretty sure.. anyways.. if someone can walk me through this one, much appreciated.. thanks.
<edit> yeah, feel free to pm with this one folks.. thanks.</edit>

 

[TwoFace]

I've never ran SETI on linux, so I can't be any help (at least not until I get home and can try on my linux comp there...) but PLEASE DO NOT tutor in pm ok?!? How will we others learn if you do??

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face
My stats:
RC5
OGR-25
Seti
Gamma Flux

 

[ColinP]

Hi,

you need to:-

1. Put the client in a directory of your choice eg. /home/seti. You can use a file manager to do this or do it from the command line with the copy command (cp) or move command (mv). e.g. cd to where you put the client, then mv seti* /home/seti/seti ... this will move the client into the /home/seti/ directory and rename it to seti.

then cd /home/seti

To run the client

./seti (if you have a proxy server add - proxy xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

Then, to make sure the client is always running do this.....

crontab -e

i (for insert)

20 * * * * cd /home/seti;./seti -nice 19 &amp;

Esc
:
wq!

This will try to start seti every hour at 20 past the hour, if it's already running the command will be ignored.

hope that's dome help,

cheers,

Col