ports/51759: Maintainer update: astro/setiathome (manual page fix, etc.)

[Cyrille Lefevre]

The following reply was made to PR ports/51759; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre at laposte.net>
To: Mikhail Teterin <Mikhail.Teterin at murex.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/51759: Maintainer update: astro/setiathome (manual page fix,
	etc.)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 04:48:53 +0200

 On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:00:42PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
 > Cyrille!
 > 
 > Your changes to the setiathome.sh startup-script now lead to shell
 > errors on startup -- missing quote. I added the quote, and hit another
 > error. I'll be sending you my update -- including the upgrade to 3.08
 > for FreeBSD in a separate e-mail. Please, take a look.
 
 that part has been completly rewritten using an external wrapper...
 
 > As far as the new start-up script, I'm not sure it is worth the extra
 > shells (per CPU) to run to automaticly restart setiathome if it exits.
 
 ditto.
 
 > Even if you are convinced, such auto-restarting is desirable (I'm not),
 > it should be one sleeping shell per machine -- not one per CPU, don't
 > you think? My dual CPU box has four setiathome-owned processes runing
 > instead of 3. Someone's 8-way monster will have 16 instead of 9 :-)
 
 done.
 
 > Finally, with the amount of shell scripting required for this, may be,
 > it would be easier to write the seti-helper in C?
 
 too complicated... everything was done using our stock sh :)
 
 see you.
 
 Cyrille.
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 Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:cyrille.lefevre at laposte.net