setup of seti@home on my box

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cduret

hello,
Long time already I try to set up seti@home on my FreeBSD box without success. Is there any understandable how to for FreeBSD?

Code: 
@ uname -a
FreeBSD darkstar 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #0 r262971: Mon Mar 10 13:27:40 CET 2014     root@darkstar:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THINKPKERNEL  amd64
@ sudoi pkg info|grep boinc
boinc-client-7.2.33            Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing client
boinc-setiathome-v7-7.00_2     Setiathome Enhanced for BOINC

When I launch boincmgr, I click on menu "add project or account manager" but nothing happen. Anyone using SETI on FreeBSD?

Thanks a lot.
 
Are you using a command line interface, or are you using a GUI like Xorg or KDE? In any case, my understanding is, in order to start using the BOINC client you must first run the command

Code: 
boinc

That starts the BOINC client so that you can interface with all of the projects. Then you run

Code: 
boincmgr

which starts the actual BOINC manager GUI which allows you to add and manage different projects. Then you can add your seti@home account and start crunching. If you are using the BOINC manager GUI and don't see in the lower right corner

Connected to localhost (7.2.33)

then you are not connected properly and you won't be able to add any accounts or crunch any workunits. That is the sequence I use to start BOINC and it has not given me any trouble at all.

As far as controlling the BOINC-client from a command line if you don't want to use the GUI you can use the command

Code: 
boinccmd

but I don't know much about the BOINC-client command line options. Happy crunching!

(BTW seti@home is not the only project that FreeBSD computers can contribute to!)
 
yes now I just remembered I need to run boincmgr as root in /var/db/boinc path and the gui works fine.
But I still have an old problem when I add seti project : I have a status of Communication deferred of 24h and no task are running :OOO
 
ho I solved this by installing the port boinc-setiathome-v7
after with the boincmgr I could start tasks right away !

thank u ;)
 
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