[ILUG] seti at domain thome

From: Declan Shanaghy (9637184 at domain student.ul.ie)
Date: Thu 20 May 1999 - 01:14:30 IST


http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu

I dunno if anyone out there is participating in this but my question
isnt really related anyway.
Basically i want to run this program `setiathome` from a cron job.

Now my impression of a cron job was a program the ran every so often and
then exits, say every hour:
0 * * * * ~dek/seti/setiathome

But setiathome runs infinitely, downloading from the site and processing
the data. (read the site for details)
So how is a cron job setup to run a program and if its already running
not run it again?

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