Message boards : BOINC Manager : installing only the Manager on OSX
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Send message Joined: 10 Dec 11 Posts: 10 |
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? |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15542 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 10 Dec 11 Posts: 10 |
Why not install BOINC completely and when running it, not add any projects? 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. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15542 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 20 Nov 12 Posts: 801 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15542 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 20 Nov 12 Posts: 801 |
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. |
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