Posts by Damon

1) Message boards : BOINC client : Mac CLI Client and Remote Access (Message 12520)
Posted 16 Sep 2007 by Damon
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As said, it may be that it's done totally different on the Macintosh, but it's the best advice I can give, until someone with Mac knowledge comes along. :-)


Hi thanks I will look at that -- I also found this which has a script that is supposed to do what I want ...

And this works on one of my machines (the one with the Boinc Manager) but not on the other (the one with the command line client). When I look at the scripts output (creating the startupitems folder and script) they look identical (except for the locations of the executables). But one is working and other is not ...

I don't know where to find the startupitems.log ... or see what error messages are being thrown at startup either ... to see what the problem is. It might be something as simple as permissions but I don't know enough about Macs either to sort it out. Is working on one machine, though ... so that is something ...
2) Message boards : BOINC client : Mac CLI Client and Remote Access (Message 12518)
Posted 16 Sep 2007 by Damon
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Hello - thanks for the suggestions! I have it running smashingly -- wonderful.

My last question is, though, how to make it run in the background on startup -- without having to start a terminal session. Is there an easy way to to do this ?

Thanks,
Damon
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Mac CLI Client and Remote Access (Message 12498)
Posted 13 Sep 2007 by Damon
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Hi,

I have the Boinc Manager running successfully on one of my Mac's and also have the Boinc Client running successfully (an remotely) on my Linux Server (Ubuntu 6.06.1) but am not sure how to go about doing the same on another older PowerMac G4 I still use.

I don't want to run the manager on the G4, just the command line client. I want it to be run at startup and be handled remotely.

How do I go about doing that? I'm sure I can get the CLI version to work by moving it to /usr/bin/boinc/ (or somewhere like that) and running the scripts, but not sure what steps to take to access it remotely. I can't find the same gui_rpc_auth.cfg file that is on my linux box. Will this work on the G4 ?

Thanks,
Damon
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : URL's Don't Work in Manager (Mac) (Message 6292)
Posted 2 Nov 2006 by Damon
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Hi,

I am noticing that none of the links to URLs in my BOINC manager (I have a Mac) open web pages; instead, it opens a blank text editor program.

I assume it is because I have set the default action of my *.html files to open in a text editor ... however, seems like there ought to be a way to fix this so I can follow the links in the Manager.

Is this a bug I can report somewhere ?
5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Newbie Questions (Message 2832)
Posted 28 Jan 2006 by Damon
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THanks for the information. I will check out installing the library files and read the wiki.

I appreciate your help.

D
6) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Newbie Questions (Message 2800)
Posted 27 Jan 2006 by Damon
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Hi,

I jumped on with SETI in 2001 but haven't done much since my initial interest back then; was just browsing around and found the new BOINC interface. I just put the BOINC MenuBar application on my PowerMac and am running my old account again with SETI.

Had a couple questions:

1. where can I find out more about how BOINC uses my processors ? I have been watching them on the Activity monitor and they keep them busy ALL the time -- so far, I don't notice a decrease in performance. Should I be closing the application when I run Final Cut and Compressor and other intesive tasks ? Or does it know when to be quiet ?

2. I can't get the full GUI to decompress -- get an error after I download it. Is that because I have the menubar running already ? Can I have them both ? I wanted the menubar because it seemed smaller and wouldn't take up as much of my memory. I wanted to install the climate change @home system but they didn't seem to have anything for the Mac.

3. Do I need to create a new user account with each @home project ?

Thanks,
Damon



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