Posts by Phaedrus

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Distribute BOINC for OSX via Casper (Message 73010)
Posted 6 Oct 2016 by Phaedrus
Post:
Anyone? Is anyony running BOINC in a relatively large OSX environment?
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Distribute BOINC for OSX via Casper (Message 72843)
Posted 3 Oct 2016 by Phaedrus
Post:
Hi all,

I am having quite a few issues getting BOINC distributed to about 100 macs in our labs.

They are running El Capitan with DeepFreeze (which is why the data directory needs to be moved) and we are running Boinc 7.6.22. These machines auto logon to an admin account with no password.

The basic workflow I am using is to build a functional base machine with BOINC working (Data folder moved, mac_sa_secure run, make_boinc_service run, joined to projects and working) then build a Casper package which copies the launchdaemon plist, Boinc manager app, data folder, and creates the symbolic links to the data directory to the new machine in their correct locations.

I then run mac_secure_sh on the remote machines (creating the boinc groups) via Casper, and add the autologon user to the security group BOINC_master.

The current state I am at is that they seem to work properly if the BOINC manager is launched manually but do not launch as a service, HOWEVER, they seem to be running as a service because BOINC does not shutdown when the manager is closed after manually launching it.

Is there a better process?
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problems after moving data directory in OSX Mavericks. (Message 55574)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Phaedrus
Post:
I am having a problem. I can completely install BOINC to the default location and it works perfectly, either via launching the manager, or running as a Daemon with no manager running.

The problem I run into is that once I move the data directory according to the directions (and as I have been doing for several years), I am unable to get it to run as a Daemon. If I launch the manager it still works, but this will not work in our labs.

I have checker the plist in LaunchDaemons and it appears to point to the new data file.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.



Copyright © 2024 University of California.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.