I have access to a number of Linux machines that are turned on 24-7. I could not stand the temptation of starting to sieve on them all.
My problem is that people don't like to see sb taking all the CPU when they check with top.
At present I use at to start and stop the client from so that it only runs during the night when noone sees and and complains.
If just crontab worked on the system things would be a lot easier, but the administrater has'nt enabled it. So i set at for some amount of days, but it is rather problematic. Is there another way without using crontab?
Is there a way to hide sb from top so that people don't see it or perhaps something that starts the client when no one is logged in?
I have tried with batch (which should start the process when load is <80% but the problem with that is that the client does not stop when load rises again.
As I see there exist a few Linux (UNIX?) process' to start a client, but the only way to stop it is to make a kill script that is run by at.
Well I hope you get the idea of my problem out there, any ideas?