[Earth Mk. II]

The page (http://team.macnn.com/rc5tipsx.phtml) gives instructions to make RC5 run via cron...

why not give instructions to run via <font face = "courier">StartupItems</font>?


All you need is a "StartupParameters.plist" and a shell script in /Library/StartupItems/(name of shell script). Make sure the shell script is executable, configure dnetc to run in "quiet mode" and it'll run every time you boot.

An example shell script:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>#!/bin/sh

/path/to/dnetc</font>[/code]

An example StartupParameters.plist:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>&lt;?xml version=<font color = red>"<font color = blue>1.0</font>"</font> encoding=<font color = red>"UTF-<font color = blue>8</font>"</font>?&gt;
&lt;!DOCTYPE plist SYSTEM <font color = red>"file:<font color = brown>//localhost/System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd"</font>&gt;</font>
&lt;plist version=<font color = red>"<font color = blue>0.9</font>"</font>&gt;
&lt;dict&gt;
&lt;key&gt;Description&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;string&gt;dnetc&lt;/string&gt;
&lt;key&gt;Messages&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;dict&gt;
&lt;key&gt;start&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;string&gt;Starting distributed.net RC5 Cipher Challenge Client&lt;/string&gt;
&lt;key&gt;stop&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;string&gt;Stopping distributed.net RC5 Cipher Challenge Client&lt;/string&gt;
&lt;/dict&gt;
&lt;key&gt;OrderPreference&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;string&gt;Last&lt;/string&gt;
&lt;key&gt;Provides&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;array&gt;
&lt;string&gt;dnetc&lt;/string&gt;
&lt;/array&gt;
&lt;key&gt;Requires&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;array&gt;
&lt;string&gt;Resolver&lt;/string&gt;
&lt;/array&gt;
&lt;/dict&gt;
&lt;/plist&gt;</font>[/code]

[Scotttheking]

It's on the list of things to change.
I run it at bootup that way. You can download an already made script from the dnet apps, but I don't think it works, and I'm not sure why.

[Earth Mk. II]

ok, cool... didn't see the boot script on the software page

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>#!/bin/sh

##
# run the distributed.net client.
##

. /etc/rc.common

ConsoleMessage <font color = red>"Starting distributed.net client"</font>

/dnetc/dnetc -quiet &</font>[/code]

if it's not working, I think it might have something to do with the trailing '&'. (<font face = "courier">-quiet &</font> is rather redundant)

I'll set it up tonight and find out.

[EDIT: I tried it... once I set the path correctly it worked fine without any modification.]

[EDIT 2: cleaning up UBB code]

[ 11-11-2001: Message edited by: Earth Mk. II ]

[ 11-11-2001: Message edited by: Earth Mk. II ]