Friday, October 21, 2011

Notes - Giving more stability to the mood lamp

I had some troubles setting up supervised process for the python binary running the mood lamp, I guess it might be related with the fact that python is also calling gnuplot subprocess via os.system call, and daemontools might be a bit lost with that (not sure).

So in order to have the binary running more stable and making it strong against spurious crashes I did a little script that is running under a screen session:

#!/bin/bash
CRASH_COUNTER=0
while : ; do
python ./animo_mundial.py
let CRASH_COUNTER=$CRASH_COUNTER+1
echo $CRASH_COUNTER > /tmp/animo_crash_counter.txt
sleep 10
done

Saturday, October 01, 2011

Notes - Have seti@home graphics working with ubuntu

sudo xhost +si:localuser:boinc

this command in your System-Preferences-Sessions-Startup Programs:
/usr/bin/xhost +local:
If you want to run it at start up

sudo xhost +si:localuser:boinc