smoothwall question

[silverpig]

I'm considering using a P3 450 as a router for my soon to be 3 PC lan and have been looking at running smoothwall as my routing/firewall software. Now, a P3 450 is a huge waste of computing power if all I'm going to do is route for a 3 PC lan, so this was definitely going to be a seti crunching machine as well. I'm just wondering if I can run additional software on a PC running smoothwall as the OS. I've searched their FAQs but all I can find is help with setting it up etc.

If anyone runs smoothwall here, can you run other programs on the pc?

 

[MoFunk]

I know a guy that runs seti on his smoothie. I will alert him to this thread and let him help, since I do not know how. In the meantime I found this on their boards that may help. http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3223&highlight=seti

 

[Coolkid]

You got it all worked out?
This is what was suggested that page:

I used winrar to untar the download from the Seti@home site,
SCP over the seti executable file (ensure it is chmod 700) and a copy of my user_info.sah (chmod 600) (if already a member).

Then modify my Crontab with this:
# Start Seti@home
*/5 * * * * root cd /seti; ./seti -nice 19 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null

And voila, it will start the Seti@home client 5 min after my smoothy boots and if it crashes for any reason it will be started again (every 5 min), if a Seti@home client is already running the lock.sah will prevent multiple clients running so one will be running. The > /dev/null 2> /dev/null tag stops all the annoying mail messages...works like a charm!

If you are going to use it with a SETIQ you can add the -proxy <address>:<port> option before "-nice 19".

Let me know if you have any problems 🙂