UC wrote:

How can I get seti to run in the background?  I know it's the nohup
command. I just can't figure out how to write the command properly to hide
the output
file.  If someone can help me, it'd be greatly appreciated.  I'm running
it on a PIII 800 128MB RAM IBM Netvista running RH Linux 7.3.

If running boinc-seti a shell script in ~/.kde/Autostart will work if you
are using KDE.  Assuming your boinc directory is ~/boinc, don't forget to
make the script executable chmod +x.  Replace username with your user.  You
can leave out the -return_results_immediately option.

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/username/boinc
./boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu -return_results_immediately &

Assume something similar will work for seti-classic or you could install
ksetispy.  Set it to start seti-classic when ksetispy starts and make a
symlink in ~/.kde/Autostart to ksetispy.  HTH