Right. I'm trying to get into the linux world and so have 2 servers available to me to play with, one Fedora and one ubuntu.

My question being.... How does one install and run the FAH client as a service on the installations? I have it downloaded,configured and on the ubuntu server but somehow need to set it up as a service (or the linux version).

I presume this is a linux first-timers thing... Anyone?

Anything in the stickies? I'm not 100% sure if there's anything about linux in the "tips" one - or if someone added to my "setting up as a client" thread. showing how to do it in linux

I believe Manny and Col-G are experts in this field.

Sadly not in the Linux field, I have only dabbled with it. I think you download the source code and compile it on the required version. Calling KLB Mike.

Folding-community.org :: View topic - Starting FAH as Daemon at startup. - APOLOGIES TO ALL FOR THE COOKIE PROBLEMS WE HAD!!

I haven't read the above, but it might not help. If not, I'll be online again later this afternoon. Got to go!

I found it after linking from TKW's link... Here's how to do it...

First download the linux FAH client to a directory ( I used /opt/FAH/ ). Don't forget this line...

chmod +x FAH504-Linux.exe

From there run the client :

./FAH504-Linux.exe -config

(I'm using the 5.04 version as the example).

Enter your name and team number and then quit out of the client when all the downloading has been done.

To make the client run in the background : ./FAH504-Linux.exe >/dev/null &

To make the client run as a service, edit the /etc/rc.local file and add the folling lines to the bottom of it :

cd /opt/FAH

./FAH504-Linux.exe >/dev/null &

Thats it. Just a word of warning - This runs using the root username and therefore maybe not the safest.

Have a look here

Also note that you don't have much control over it once you've redir'd output to /dev/nell - all you can do is kill the process, rather than shut it down.

Glad to see you found it in the end - you'll find that often Linuxey things use completely different ways to achieve the same result. After a while you'll get a "picture" of how things work and where to search when they don't but it'll be frustrating to begin with! Best of luck,

On linux use screen rather than direct to /dev/null

At a bash prompt type:

# screen

# cd folding

# ./FAH

I'll write up a proper how to when i get a moment