Hey everyone, I'm glad I finally decided to check out these forums about BOINC. I'm still confused though. Not that it's a big surprise.

I just recently built a Linux web/file server using the Ubuntu 6.10 Server edition. It does not have an X installation.

I got the BOINC client and got it all extracted. I'm running ./run_client in a screened process.

For the life of me, without being able to use a gui interface, I can't get any of my projects to attach.

I've tried

john@venus ~/BOINC$ ./boinc_cmd --attach http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

I don't understand what the auth part of the --attach switch does and why I need it. Can someone help me out here please so I can stick a few more Linux/FreeBSD boxes up here? Thanks in advance.


John

The authenticator is a 32 digit hex number, the client uses it to identify your account.

If you have a host that is already attached you can copy the account*.xml file to the new host and restart the client to attach.

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