Thread 'installing only the Manager on OSX'

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cmosentine Send message Joined: 10 Dec 11 Posts: 10	Message 66492 - Posted: 29 Dec 2015, 17:16:31 UTC I want to install the BOINC Manager only on my Macbook Pro so that I can use it to administer my other BOINC Client machines. I have the full BOINC package installed but have not configured the client to do any work as I don't want to do crunching on my laptop. So far I can't seem to make this work by coping the manager application, removing BOINC, and then starting the manager from the copy. I know it was a long shot. I see there are instructions to build the manager from source on github, but I would rather find a pre-compiled manager-only package. Has anyone successfully installed/built/run the BOINC manager only?? How? ID: 66492 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15573	Message 66494 - Posted: 29 Dec 2015, 17:21:27 UTC - in response to Message 66492. Why not install BOINC completely and when running it, not add any projects? Else see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Tools_for_Mac_OS_X#Moving_BOINC_Manager_or_BOINC_Data_Folder_to_a_Different_Drive for how to move BOINC Manager around and adding the symbolic links and permissions. ID: 66494 ·

cmosentine Send message Joined: 10 Dec 11 Posts: 10	Message 66495 - Posted: 29 Dec 2015, 17:23:35 UTC - in response to Message 66494. Last modified: 29 Dec 2015, 17:29:04 UTC Why not install BOINC completely and when running it, not add any projects? Else see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Tools_for_Mac_OS_X#Moving_BOINC_Manager_or_BOINC_Data_Folder_to_a_Different_Drive for how to move BOINC Manager around and adding the symbolic links and permissions. Thanks for the reply. That is what I am doing right now but it is messy as the client always starts when the manager starts. No need to have extraneous processes running. ID: 66495 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15573	Message 66498 - Posted: 29 Dec 2015, 18:40:38 UTC - in response to Message 66495. Under Windows at least when BOINC Manager runs it will (try to) restart the client and else complain about that. I'd think that something similar will happen under OS X. At least the complaining. ID: 66498 ·

Juha Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 20 Nov 12 Posts: 801	Message 66502 - Posted: 29 Dec 2015, 20:06:16 UTC Manager built from master has an option to not start the client=daemon. I'm not sure if the option has made it to the release versions yet. ID: 66502 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15573	Message 66507 - Posted: 29 Dec 2015, 21:00:46 UTC - in response to Message 66502. It's not in any 7.6 as far as I can see. So it'll probably go further to 7.8, to allow for some rigorous testing as well. ID: 66507 ·

Juha Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 20 Nov 12 Posts: 801	Message 66509 - Posted: 29 Dec 2015, 22:09:07 UTC - in response to Message 66507. Ok then. While we wait for 7.8 to materialise, Manager has command line option to specify host name/IP address. I would expect that using anything other than localhost as host would prevent Manager from starting client. ID: 66509 ·

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