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Send message Joined: 27 Sep 04 Posts: 27 Credit: 85,319 RAC: 0 |
16 work units lost when the Boinc software detached itself from the project without prompting. Does anyone have a listing of commands for the Linux Boinc software? ./boinc --help gets me nowhere. |
Send message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 137 Credit: 1,691,526 RAC: 5 |
Do you have any logs of the event? I have never seen it do this on either of my linux boxes so I can't really guess at what went wrong? However, the --help switch does display a full list of other available commandline switches. What exactly do you mean by 'gets me nowhere'? -------------------------------------- A member of The Knights Who Say Ni! My BOINC stats site |
Send message Joined: 27 Sep 04 Posts: 27 Credit: 85,319 RAC: 0 |
gets me nowhere as in type ./boinc --help at the console prompt in the folder where the downloaded boinc .gz file unpacked the program and no information gets returned. path is /tmp/XandrosFM Typing dir at the console prompt shows me a number of .xml files associated with the LHC project, but none of them is a Boinc file. cd to the /projects folder dir produces lhcathome.cern.ch, which is an empty folder Sixtrack was running, which means that Boinc is present on the system. But where? Searching for Boinc using find program or folder also comes up with no results. I can start Boinc running by unpacking the .gz file but by no other method. I'm confused. |
Send message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 14 Credit: 168,153 RAC: 0 |
dbernat The executable is not called boinc. cd to the directory where you unarchived the gz file to. Type ls you will see the executable with a name like this: boinc_4.09_i686-pc-linux-gnu Obviously the above example is ver 4.09. To run this you have to enter the full name: ./boinc_4.09_i686-pc-linux-gnu to get the help file: ./boinc_4.09_i686-pc-linux-gnu --help. Tip You dont have to type all of the name: type ./boinc and hit the tab key, it autocompletes for you. |
Send message Joined: 27 Sep 04 Posts: 27 Credit: 85,319 RAC: 0 |
Click twice on the .gz file on the desktop Click twice on the gnu program in the .gz file copying to /tmp/XandrosFM and the Boinc program starts running in the /tmp/XandrosFM path start console /tmp/XandrosFM ls returns the folder *project*, six .xml files, one .html file, and lockfile. No Boinc program is listed under that name. The only running Boinc program is the program within the .gz file on the desktop. What step(s) do I need to take that I have not taken? |
Send message Joined: 18 Sep 04 Posts: 71 Credit: 28,399 RAC: 0 |
You're running the application directly from the archiver. You need to properly install this, so stop clickity-clicking. ;-) Open a console and from your home directory, create a boinc installation directory. I call mine 'boinc'. Move the .gz file from your desktop into this new boinc directory. In your console, cd to the boinc directory and unpack it, e.g., 'gunzip boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz'. This will leave you with an executable. Make sure it's got the proper rights: 'chmod 744 boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu'. Now, use locate or find to determine where all your account*.xml files are located and moved them into your new boinc directory. With all that done, you should just be able to start the BOINC client with './boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and see it begin working. Feel free to set up running the client as a cron job. |
Send message Joined: 27 Sep 04 Posts: 27 Credit: 85,319 RAC: 0 |
Trane Francks wrote: Open a console and from your home directory, create a boinc installation directory. I call mine 'boinc'. Move the .gz file from your desktop into this new boinc directory. In your console, cd to the boinc directory and unpack it, e.g., 'gunzip boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz'. This will leave you with an executable. Make sure it's got the proper rights: 'chmod 744 boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu'. Now, use locate or find to determine where all your account*.xml files are located and moved them into your new boinc directory. --------------------------------------------------------------- Got it at long last. Thanks, Trane. Been a long time since we met. You still in Tokyo? |
Send message Joined: 18 Sep 04 Posts: 71 Credit: 28,399 RAC: 0 |
Yikes. I just stumbled onto this months after the fact. Yeah, mate, I'm still in Tokyo. Been 13 years now. Isn't that scary! |
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