Okay, so i wanted my server to be on boinc aswell and tried to attach it to the 2 project i am active in...

seti@home
climateprediction.net

But i cannot get my server to attach properly at all.

when i type

boinc --attach_project http://www.setiathome.berkely.edu <account key>

it lists that project when i give the --show-projects command but where it says "name:" there is nothinh listed... like it hasn't got my user details or something

I tried the key from the account xml file on my desktop and the key listed on the account page at from the projects. (they where to same anyways)

i don't have the initial e-mail anymore, but i think that key will be the same aswell.

Can't i just copy the account xml files over to the server's boinc folder instead ?

i also tried --allow_remote_gui_rpc command but still i cannot connect to the remote host from my desktop.
i set the password in the rpc file and use the servers ip adress as the computer i wish to connect to...

I would like to be able to do either of the following 2 things.

- Attach my project from the commandline via ssh
- Attach my project via the boinc manager on my desktop...

anyone got a suggestion for me ? the boinc client is runnign as a deamon on my ubuntu server.

Can't i just copy the account xml files over to the server's boinc folder instead ?.

Yes you can.

For BOINC 5.10 and below, it's just the BOINC directory that it needs to be in.
For BOINC 6 and above, it's the BOINC Data directory that it needs to be in.

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will it then register as a second computer with a diffirent account at the project side ? and doesn't it need to know what project files it should load ?

it just seems a bit strange to copy a file with account info to another machine, although it otherwise seems logical aswell.

It will register the new computer as a secondary computer on the same account you're using already. BOINC will download whatever files it needs from the project.

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will it then register as a second computer with a diffirent account at the project side ? and doesn't it need to know what project files it should load ?

it just seems a bit strange to copy a file with account info to another machine, although it otherwise seems logical aswell.

The file account_pro.ject.url.xml does not contain any specific info about a computer. It is just the computer's password for communication with the project server.

Attaching the computer over GUI RPC (either through commandline or Manager) is effectively the same as starting the client with a new account_*.xml file - the client has a new login credentials, it will contact the scheduler, get new 'host account ID' assigned and download anything necessary for crunching.

when i type

boinc --attach_project http://www.setiathome.berkely.edu <account key>

it lists that project when i give the --show-projects command but where it says "name:" there is nothinh listed... like it hasn't got my user details or something...

I believe you should succeed with

./boinccmd --project_attach http://www.setiathome.berkely.edu "<account key>"

Note that boinc is the client and it usually refuses to run two instances of itself concurrently on a computer. Instead, boinccmd is meant for commandline control of running client. If the client already runs, you have to use

boinc_cmd --get_project_status

to obtain the list of attached projects.

Peter

I'm having a similar problem so that's why I post here.

I'm trying to get boinc to run on my second FreeBSD box following the instructions on:

http://people.freebsd.org/~pav/boinc.html

On my first box installation and connection to the project went well.

My second box is a server so I have no gui. I've installed according to the instructions and it went as it should.
Starting the deamon as root also worked fine. I did chmod 666 /var/db/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg, no problem!

After cd'ing to /var/db/boinc/ I gave the command
boinc_cmd --project_attach setiathome.berkeley.edu XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

It seemed to work. With top I can see that the processor is used by boinc.

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
54609 boinc 1 171 i31 6276K 3384K RUN 0:26 93.98% boinc_client

and there's also another process

54590 boinc 1 171 i31 6276K 3428K RUN 0:00 0.00% boinc_client

On the first machine top shows:

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
13817 boinc 2 8 19 39936K 34880K nanslp 0 89:29 93.02% setiathome-
11956 boinc 2 8 19 40960K 35440K nanslp 0 143:25 92.68% setiathome-

Which looks more right to me!

My problem is that the command boinc_cmd --get_state just hangs.

I can't see the second machine on the website so I'm not sure if it's working correctly!

Can you help or clarify?
Thanks
/Leslie

boinc_client is hanged if it's using all the CPU. Kill it.

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Thank you for answering. Yes, I understand it has hanged. What I don't understand is why it does not work on this machine.

lesjen,

on freebsd helps additional key
--skip_cpu_benchmarks
in startup script

Hi

Thanks for your reply :-)

Do you mean that I should use it like this for example?

boinc_cmd --get_state --skip_cpu_benchmarks

I'm not really sure when you write "in startup script"

Thanks

/Leslie

OK! Thank you. I do not have any GUI on this machine, I want it to start when the machine is powered on. I've not been successfull in doing that.

/Leslie

I am trying to run Boinc (WCG) on a Dell Inspiron 910 (Ubuntu 8.04). Everything seemed to go okay during installation and 1st time use, until I got the message after all the files had downloaded:

Message from server: platform 'i686-pc-linux-gnulp' not found

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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I am trying to run Boinc (WCG) on a Dell Inspiron 910 (Ubuntu 8.04). Everything seemed to go okay during installation and 1st time use, until I got the message after all the files had downloaded:

Message from server: platform 'i686-pc-linux-gnulp' not found

Now that's weird. Where did you download BOINC from, WCG website?

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