gentoo-overlay/sci-mathematics/gimps/files

Useful documentation for running the GIMPS daemon can be found at:

http://www.mersenne.org/gettingstarted/

http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=10



To run the GIMPS daemon as an unprivileged user some steps are required.



1. Before starting the GIMPS service run (as root) the following command:

  # /opt/gimps/mprime -m -w/var/lib/gimps

2. Answer 'Y' to the "Join Gimps?" question

3. Accept default values for the following question (or tweak them as you

deem necessary)

4. Stop the running tests with ^C

5. Exit the client, pressing '5'

6. Change the owner and group of all the files in /var/lib/gimps to

nobody:nobody:

  # chown nobody:nobody /var/lib/gimps/*



Then you can use `/etc/init.d/gimps start` to start a GIMPS client in the

background at boot. Have a look at /etc/conf.d/gimps and check some

configuration options.



If you don't want to use the init script to start gimps, remember to

pass it an additional command line parameter specifying where the data

files are to be stored, e.g.:

# /opt/gimps/mprime -w/var/lib/gimps"