Posts by Fermulator

1) Message boards : BOINC client : fedora boinccmd --read_global_prefs_override = Operation failed: Error -1 (Message 68113)
Posted 4 Mar 2016 by Fermulator
Post:
Trying to script the editing and re-reading of /etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml. To do this, we can edit that file, and poke boinccmd to re-read the global prefs override file via:
boinccmd --read_global_prefs_override


On Ubuntu server 14.04, this works fine:
$ boinccmd -V
boinccmd,  built from BOINC 7.2.42 

$ sudo boinccmd --read_global_prefs_override


But on Fedora server 22, it errors out:
$ boinccmd -V
boinccmd,  built from BOINC 7.2.42 

$ sudo boinccmd --read_global_prefs_override
Operation failed: Error -1                                      <<<<---- oops


Uncertain how to get a more verbose error message.

Note that on Ubuntu, the global prefs override file is where we expect:
/etc/boinc-client$ ls -al | grep override
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  boinc  2121 Mar  4 00:04 global_prefs_override.xml


However, on Fedora, this didn't exist, and instead it's only here:
/var/lib/boinc-client$ ls -al | grep override
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root      43 Feb 13 14:34 global_prefs_override.xml -> /etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml

, tried creating a symlink (guessing that this might be a problem) but it didn't help.
/etc/boinc-client]$ ll
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 40 Mar  4 00:17 global_prefs_override.xml -> /var/lib/boinc/global_prefs_override.xml


Anyone have any thoughts or experience with this?
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Feature request: computing preferences in schedule (Message 67930)
Posted 21 Feb 2016 by Fermulator
Post:
+1

I'd like to be able to even specify a /list/ of time-of-day computing preferences per day. e.g. instead of being limited to "HH:MM-HH:MM", I'd like to support "HH:MM-HH:MM,[HH:MM-HH:MM]...".

Do we have anything started? I'd be interested in contributing to additional scheduling requirement gathering + feature implementation.

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc-dev-doc/wiki



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