On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 04:31:49PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
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> When I started learning C (about three and a half years ago), one of the 
> programs I wrote was for checking the Goldbach-assumption. It says that 
> for every even number >= 4 can be shown to be the sum of two prime 
> numbers.
> As far as I know Goldbach so far has neither been shown to be right or 
> wrong. And the only way to do so I could think of - being no 
> mathematician - is to check every even number >= 4.
> More than three years later, my C is still very poor. =) But recently I 
> started to care again and rewrote the program.

You can never possibly check every even number >=4 due to time constraints,
but you may be able to find a counterexample using your method (if one
exists - AFAIK one has not been found).

> 
> Now I would like to run the program on my NetBSD-box (which I use as a 
> small home server and ipnat-gateway). In fact I have done so for quite 
> some time, but so far I've been controlling it manually.
> Now I am growing tired of that and would like to control goldbach via 
> rc.conf. So I looked up what other scripts in /etc/rc.d look like and 
> wrote a script that I thought looked quite reasonable. =) I copied it 
> to /etc/rc.d, made it executable and addded "goldbach=YES" to rc.conf.
> Yet, nothing happens.
> The script looks like this:

Does "/etc/rc.d/goldbach start" work manually?