[PLUG] unwanted nohup behavior

[Petcher, Danielx J]

Have you considered running the console client instead of the GUI version? I
hear there is an excellent installation script at
http://www.vendomar.ee/%7Eivo/finstall

Oops! I just re-read your message. You weren't talking about the Stanford
Folding at Home project; you were talking about distributedfolding.org

I'm not as familiar with this project. Hmmmm. I'll have to get back to you
later.

-djp 
http://folding.stanford.edu - the brain you save may be your own!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike De La Mater [mailto:mikedela at ipns.com]
> 
> I'm running a program as part of a distributed project folding protiens.
> distributedfolding.org
> 
> The thing is that I want to run the program, but I need to close the
> terminal. At
> the suggestion of some helpful individuals on the list, I'm using nohup.
> 
> It works like a champ. Unfortunately the program generates a little
> graphic of the
> protien it's folding and nohup thinks of this as somethig tht needs to be
> logged to
> nohup.out. When nohup.out fills that partition, it causes me pain. Being a
> true pain
> avoider, I'm interested in a fix.
> 
> Can I delete the nohup.out file in a cron job? A dialy rm should do it,
> but will I
> cause any problems with this approach?
> 
> Mike De La Mater
> mikedela at ipns.com
> 503-702-6749