To improve auto-running on a linux machine, commands can be added to scripts in /etc/rc.d. This is how the linuxforge image runs the scripts. I'm not as familiar on where in the rc.d stuff to insert the commands to start folding. In the linuxforge image the commands are loaded near the tail end of rc.m. Where under Ubuntu is the best place to insert the commands?
This could also work for your core hack. As I understand it, the core hack needs to be loaded before starting folding, so putting something like:
Code:
cat /proc/stat | awk 'BEGIN { TARGET_NCPUS=12 } ; { if ($1 == "intr") { for (i=NR-2;i<TARGET_NCPUS;i++) print "cpu" i S } ; S="" ; for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) S=S " " $i ; print }' > /tmp/stat.save && mount --bind /tmp/stat.save /proc/stat
cd /home/[user]/fah && sudo -u [user] screen -d -m ./fah6
in rc.local, should result in loading the core hack, and starting folding in a detached screen on boot of the machine. Once you are at the desktop, you can start a console, and type "screen -r" which will bring up the folding console.
I'm sure this will work for the folding client, but unsure if it will work for the core hack, and am wondering if any of you wish to give it a try.
I've been looking at rc.local, rc?.d and init.d. Looks like it would best go into rc.local, but I'm not sure how to get the core hack to launch. I've been playing with getting 12cores.sh to run as a startup program, but it will not run unless I use the line gnome-terminal -e 12cores.sh" to call the core hack as a separate terminal. Consequently, 12cores.sh launches in an indipendant terminal without sudo elevation, and waits for the sudo password. I'm not sure if the code will work properly directly from rc.local, or if I have to call 12cores.sh. if I do that, it will probably still wait for the sudo password. Is there any way to pass the sudo password from the gnome-terminal command so I don't have to type sudo password into the child terminal?
Edited by jfb9301 - 5/18/12 at 6:42pm
