10.5 Leopard BOINC won't run as a service

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Message 30593 - Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 14:11:55 UTC

I upgraded my old G4 iMac to 10.5 Leopard to see how things went before possibly installing it on my Power Mac or PowerBook.

If I make BOINC a service with Charlie's script, the daemon will not start and BOINCManager.app will not connect to localhost. If I remove boinc from /Library/StartupItems even without reboot, logout, or even quitting BOINCManager.app then it will run projects.

Does anyone know of a possible solution short of reverting back to 10.4 Tiger?
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Message 30610 - Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 8:42:18 UTC - in response to Message 30593.  

Are you sure you're using the current version of the Make_BOINC_Service.sh script from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Tools_for_Mac_OS_X? It doesn't put anything in the /Library/StartupItems/ folder; it puts items into the /Library/LaunchDaemons/ directory.
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Message 30618 - Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 7:55:46 UTC - in response to Message 30610.  
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*blushes* No I wasn't using the latest version. I hadn't heard that there was a new one and being the space case that I am (thus my interest in SETI lol) I didn't think to check. Got the new one now, thank you for the link.

*edit* It worked! Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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