I had to do some work on my machine and went to kill the seti process, which I did, checked top, it was still there, did it again, and again, and again; eventually decided that it seemed to be starting new processes every time I killed one. I had to reboot to clear things up.

Any idea what causes this and if there is a way to prevent it in the future?

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I think you would have to either
- only stop the seti process "kill -STOP " or similar) and later resume it with "kill -CONT " or
- kill the boinc process that controls and restarts seti.

before killing the seti proccess you have to kill the boinc proccess.
if you only killed seti then boinc will restart a new setiathome proccess and that´s what happend on your machine. ;)

you could use something like:
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#! /bin/sh
cd /opt/boinc/
kill `ps aux | grep setia | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
kill `ps aux | grep boinc | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
#! /bin/sh
rm /opt/boinc/lockfile

------ for stopping

and

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#!/bin/sh
cd /opt/boinc
/opt/boinc/boinc_client -return_results_immediately > /dev/tty10 3> /dev/tty10&

---- for starting the proccess

Regards
Crunch3r

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