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author | Stefan Bethke <stb@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-22 13:00:54 +0000 |
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committer | Stefan Bethke <stb@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-22 13:00:54 +0000 |
commit | 94bc071fb20cd6711ac84b73a5b59cea2ac03fe2 (patch) | |
tree | d03b43d8daeb329f307900a85f332d96ba02dbec /astro/setiathome | |
parent | 88a4f4009e302d54489db7aea9f82523a9e582f7 (diff) | |
download | ports-94bc071fb20cd6711ac84b73a5b59cea2ac03fe2.tar.gz ports-94bc071fb20cd6711ac84b73a5b59cea2ac03fe2.zip |
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diff --git a/astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.1 b/astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.1 index d4df137fe40b..cd4f21bfab4f 100644 --- a/astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.1 +++ b/astro/setiathome/files/setiathome.1 @@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ .Op Ar options .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm -is the UNIX version of the SETI@home client. It downloads radio telescope -data from a network server, analyzes the data looking for signals of -extraterrestrial origin, and uploads results to the server, repeating this -cycle indefinitely. See http://setiahome.ssl.berkeley.edu for more -information. +is the UNIX version of the +.Tn SETI@home +client. It downloads radio telescope data from a network server, analyzes +the data looking for signals of extraterrestrial origin, and uploads results +to the server, repeating this cycle indefinitely. See +http://setiahome.ssl.berkeley.edu for more information. .Pp The first time you run .Nm @@ -24,25 +25,30 @@ program subsequently. .Pp After this you can run .Nm -in the background, and direct its output to /dev/null if you like. +in the background, and direct its output to +.Pa /dev/null +if you like. .Pp .Nm can be freely aborted and restarted. It saves its state in files, and will pick up where it left off. .Pp -If you wish -.Nm -to be started automatically, you may wish to setup a cron job. The supplied -script "set_cron_job" will create a script for running setiathome and add it -to your crontab. To use it, change to your -.Nm -directory and type "./set_cron_job" at the prompt. For more information on -cron jobs see the crontab(1) manual page. -.Pp .Nm requires about 0.5\ MBytes of disk space in it's working directory, and about 12\ MBytes of memory. If you have ample physical memory, it's work load should be almost undetectable. +.Pp +This port to FreeBSD includes a start-up script (usually found in +.Pa /usr/local/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh ) +that starts +.Nm +at system start-up. You can also use this script to set up a working +directory +.Pa ( /var/db/setiathome ) , +and lets you register with or login to +.Tn SETI@home +by calling it with the argument +.Li register . .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl login @@ -57,23 +63,30 @@ Set "nice" priority to (default 1); .It Fl email Send email (to login email address) on errors. Useful if you run in -background directed to /dev/null. +background directed to +.Pa /dev/null . .El .Pp .Sh FILES -The program generates several files with .txt extension -in the directory from which it's run. -These should not be modified. +The program generates several files with +.Pa .txt +extension in the directory from which it's run. These should not be +modified. .Pp If you want to run multiple instances of setiathome (on a multiprocessor machine, or on multiple machines that share a filesystem) each one must be run in a different directory. .Pp -setiathome uses a lock file (lock.txt) to prevent -multiple instances from running in the same directory. +setiathome uses a lock file +.Pa ( lock.txt ) +to prevent multiple instances from running in the same directory. .Sh AUTHORS -SETI@home was developed by David Anderson, Jeff Cobb, Charlie -Fenton, David Gedye, Kyle Granger, Eric Korpela, Matt Lebofsky, -Peter Leiser, Brad Silen, Woody Sullivan, and Dan Werthimer. +.Tn SETI@home +was developed by +.An David Anderson , Jeff Cobb , Charlie Fenton , David Gedye , +.An Kyle Granger , Eric Korpela , Matt Lebofsky , Peter Leiser , +.An Brad Silen , Woody Sullivan , +and +.An Dan Werthimer . .Pp |