On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:51:45 +0000, Klaatu wrote:

Steve wrote:

Anyone have BOINC running succesfully in Linux?  I'm trying to get things
to work on my Mandrake 10.0 system without success.  I've followed the
(poor) instructions on the download site and can't seem to get things to
run.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Am running Boinc in Mdk 10.  Just create a Boinc directory in home, unpack
the download and make executable, then run from a terminal.  As the Boinc
site mentions

"The BOINC command-line client

Install the BOINC client by using gunzip to decompress the application. Use
'chmod' to make it executable. Put it in a directory by itself. Run it
manually, from your login script, or from system startup files."

After you get it up and running you can launch the program automatically in
the background at boot up if you are using KDE or a similar gui.  Create a
script in ~/.kde/Autostart called say startboinc

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/username/boinc
nohup ./boinc_3.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu &

Make the script execuatble with chmod +x.  Then when you boot up Boinc and
Setiathome will be running at priority 0 and 19 in the background.  As root
you can renice the seticlient to any priority you want, I use 0.  In the
Boinc directory you will find a text file, nohup.out, with the client
messages.  If you don't want the messages you can direct them to /dev/null. 
You may even be able to renice Setiathome automatically but thats a little
more involved.

I've been using a gui to monitor progress, Boincgui,
http://www.davidzilch.co.uk/boincgui/ .  Just download, compile, and place
the executable in the top level boinc directory.  Have been running since
the 22nd without problems.  HTH

Thanks to all.  It turned out to be a problem with the chair to keyboard
interface.  

I was trying to execute the file by using the command sh
boinc_3.18_i686...  instead of ./boinc_3.18_i686...