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fahclient no longer located in /etc/init.d/?
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2019 10:11 pm
by MeeLee
Lubuntu 18.04 and 18.10
I can no longer find fahclient in my init.d folder.
I don't know what happened to it.
is there a different location to start the service, or is fah dependent on some startup services?
I did remove some startup services I think I didn't need, but didn't see which one are connected to FAHClient.
thanks in advance!
Re: fahclient no longer located in /etc/init.d/?
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:30 pm
by foldy
I use Ubuntu 18.04 and install this way
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wget https://download.foldingathome.org/releases/public/release/fahclient/debian-stable-64bit/v7.5/fahclient_7.5.1_amd64.deb
apt-get install ./fahclient_7.5.1_amd64.deb
and FAHClient is still found in /etc/init.d/
Re: fahclient no longer located in /etc/init.d/?
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:51 am
by MeeLee
The service is still running. Perhaps I'll have to reinstall it.
Re: fahclient no longer located in /etc/init.d/?
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:02 pm
by bruce
MeeLee wrote:The service is still running. Perhaps I'll have to reinstall it.
It's normal for the service to run 24x7, just like the other Linux services. (Your printer service runs continuously, but it doesn't do anything until some other app queues up a file to be delivered to your printer.) The FAHClient service is responsible for uploading and downloading WUs. It doesn't do anything unless there's a file to be uploaded or a FAH slot has been configured to request an new WU when your system runs out of WUs that can be processed.
If you want to stop a FAHCore* from consuming resources, go to FAHControl and set your slot(s) to FINISH ... or temporarily do a PAUSE.