setiwrapper for running setiathome as seti user, and also delaying between invocations

setiwrapper (text/plain), 362 bytes, created by Julie Brandon on 2004-04-22 12:19:05 UTC

#!/bin/bash
echo "${SHELLOPTS}"
cd $(dirname $0)
dir=${1}
shift
while :; do
	su seti -c ${dir}/setiathome "$@"
	# It is against seti@home policy to restart your setiathome
	# binary straight after it has quit without any kind of delay,
	# because of the risk of repeatedly hitting the seti@home
	# website when the services are temporarily down
	sleep 3600
done