OS X and DF

[tracer]

I've started to run DF on some G5's where I work. I was wondering if anyone knew a way to rin the client in a way that the users would never know it was there. I made a term file to run DF and it works fine but it sits in the dock as a terminal window. Also it asks for confirmation to close the terminal window when you try to restart the computer. So any ideas to make it completely invisibe to the user would be quite helpful....

[iggy]

I haven't tried it in Linux (running without X), but it might be possible to hide it by adding "&" at the end of the command line, something like this:

./foldit &

Even if it works for Linux, not sure will it work for OS X.

You could eventualy try to alter program properties, if appropriate, and make it hidden.

Hopefully, Rayven is around - he is Apple master in charge here! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[RayvenX]

If Iggy's suggestion doesn't work, the best thing to do would be to start the client, pause it with ctrl-z, then type bg to resume it as a background process. It should work for anything that doesn't require user interaction, including DF.