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Hi All,
I want to get back in Folding@Home.
But I don't want to fold the whole day.
Is there any solution for setting a schedule that triggers F@H to start and stop?
In all the time that I use F@H, I could not find it...
I hope you all can help me finding a good solution.
Sorry for this short message, but I'm not good at writing messages...
Greetings, Rik
PS. Yes, I used Google... :D
I only really know how to schedule on a Windows box...
Start > Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Administrative Tools > Task Scheduler
Create Task on the right
Name the task - step through the pages it's self explanatory.
At the end there is an option to "open the properties" check this - this gives you many more options - like being able to stop it - which you can do with "stop the task if it runs longer than - options 1/2/4/8/12 hrs / 1 day / 3 days..
There maybe Command line options to stop the program as well if so new task - do the same but put the Command line in to stop and schedule when you want to stop it
Alternate (works)
ADMIN permissions only!
Taskkill - there are options to KILL specific tasks (i know this works in Win 7) .. what you need to do is basically have the task running and bring up a command line window and type tasklist
will bring up a list of running processes - TASKKILL can kill specific tasks either by image name
TASKKILL /IM eq "name of running task" /T /F (only need to force if required)
I know this works as I set this up at work - to start up a task at 6pm and shut down the task at 6am the next morning
Google will be able to help you more with the exact ins and outs of this..
IF your using mac - should have similar.
IF your using linux - cron maybe able to help... not savvy with cron ...