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Nefarious wrote:

Probably your crontabs (a type of automatic timer) have been axed.

I'm still reviewing the threads over here: http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic21678.html 

Note to 10.5 users:  Camino works better than Safari, I think.

Thanks! I am going to look into that maybe tomorrow, and get my folding back on line.

let us know the name of the folder for folding in your  Home / Library folder.

It's going to be something like     fah1, fah2, folding@home, Folding

Since you are running a dual CPU, we need to know if there's more than 1 incidence of Folding you may have had running.  (bleh, that's a long sentence for just a little piece of info).

Then I can write up the crontab for you.

okay, try this procedure and reboot.     

1. Open TextEdit.  Put this into a text file
@reboot     cd /Applications/FAH1; nohup ./fah5 -local -advmethods -forceasm &> /dev/null &
@reboot     cd /Applications/FAH2; nohup ./fah5 -local -advmethods -forceasm &> /dev/null &

2. Save text to Home folder.   filename = foldingcrontab.txt

3. Open "Terminal" and type or cut+paste this
crontab   <~/foldingcrontab.txt

4. Reboot
5. After a few minutes ( or even in just 20 seconds), you should see your folding active in Activity Monitor.

If not, post back here.

Your old notes should work with this fix. 



put a space after your "cd" and before "/Users"
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To audit my method --- (let's do my audit first, just in case);

1. type crontab -l       in terminal
2. You should see a line of text with the reboot.
3. ---> COPY and PASTE that text in a forum post here.    There may be a small misspelling.

note:  the "~"  tilde is the same  as  "/Users/your username"

4.  and copy and paste your  foldingcrontab.txt file here also.

We're on the job. 

Okay I tried but it still did not work. Do I need to type anything to close out the terminal window? Do I just close the terminal window, or just reboot? Just rebooting, and closing out the terminal window is what I tried. I can't reboot anymore tonight, busy running applications, but will try again tomorrow. Thanks again for the help!

To audit my method --- (let's do my audit first, just in case);

1. type crontab -l       in terminal
2. You should see a line of text with the reboot.
3. ---> COPY and PASTE that text in a forum post here.    There may be a small misspelling.

@reboot cd /Users/bart/Applications/FAH1; nohup ./fah5 -local -advmethods -forceasm &> /dev/null &
@reboot cd /Users/bart/Applications/FAH2; nohup ./fah5 -local -advmethods -forceasm &> /dev/null &


note:  the "~"  tilde is the same  as  "/Users/your username"

4.  and copy and paste your  foldingcrontab.txt file here also.

@reboot cd /Users/bart/Applications/FAH1; nohup ./fah5 -local -advmethods -forceasm &> /dev/null &
@reboot cd /Users/bart/Applications/FAH2; nohup ./fah5 -local -advmethods -forceasm &> /dev/null &

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The first time I tried using my old instructions, and then I tried your method with the:

Open "Terminal" and type or cut+paste this
crontab   <~/foldingcrontab.txt

the old or first try was still there, but I did the above too, and closed the terminal window and rebooted.

The text you are copying begins with the @reboot

Nefarious wrote:

The text you are copying begins with the @reboot

Yes, I will have to get out my 12"PB and trouble shoot the problem, as I can't always be rebooting  my Powermac.

Can you paste the output from these four separate Terminal commands:

ls -al /Users/bart/Applications/FAH1/

ls -al /Users/bart/Applications/FAH2/

tail -n 50 /Users/bart/Applications/FAH1/FAHlog.txt

tail -n 50 /Users/bart/Applications/FAH2/FAHlog.txt