Re: [TCLUG:14678] running rc5 crackers

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:49:30AM -0800, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> Eric Hopper wrote:
> >> so I run it inside of 'screen', and then detach my session.  I leave it
> >> running all the time at nice +19.  
>         why +19, and not +20? or would it tend to get choked off at
> +20?

	Well, the top display never shows it at +20, it only shows it at
+19.  This confuses me, as I thought the scale was supposed to go to
+20, but since it doesn't seem to, I don't try to pretend it does.

> Calum Lerwick wrote:
> >echo "Starting rc5des client..." >/dev/console
> >cd /usr/local/sbin/dnetc
> >./dnetc >/dev/tty9 2>&1 &
> >cd /
> so you just switch to VC #9 to see it?

	Oh, I didn't realize what he's doing.  I often log in remotely
from work via ssh, so I still want to use screen.  AFAIK, you can't view
a console virtual terminal remotely.

> why can't you do: 
> /usr/local/sbin/dnetc >/dev/tty9 2>&1 &
> 
> instead of 
> >cd /usr/local/sbin/dnetc
> >./dnetc >/dev/tty9 2>&1 &
> ?

	My guess is because there are temporary files, and while the
executable should be smart enough to figure out what directory it was
run from and work with the files there, it never hurts to cd to the
proper place to give it the even broader hint of a working directory.
:-)

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