I don't have access to a gui on my linux box, and am stumped on how to get boinc to start doing any work.

The daemon is loaded and running. I use BAM as my project manager, and have managed to attach to that, this machine shows up as one of my hosts. I ran an attach to project for climateprediction and rosetta@home, and when I run a get_status those projects show up. However, they have not downloaded any work and my name, user name, and team name are all blank.

I have other boxes running these same projects, but those have been set up for a long time (meaning I have forgotten what tricks, if any, I needed) and I have a gui on those machines.

Can anybody point me to a "cookbook method" for getting up and running? I've read lots of pages about boinccmd commands, but haven't been able to put it all together.

BOINC command line switches

and

BOINCCMD Tool command line switches

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Yes, been there, done that. I'm missing something, because although I ran the attach to project stuff and attach to project manager stuff, I'm still not doing any work on that machine.

Perhaps the problem is "Which url?" "Which password?" I have a user name on bam that is different from the one on seti@home, although the passwords are the same. What controls what?

lookup account for rosetta gives me unhelpful info like

poll status: no database rows found in lookup/enumerate

What does that mean? I'm guessing something like "no account found" even though I can log into the rosetta site using exactly the username and passwork I provided to boinccmd.

Since you use an account manager, you shouldn't attach to projects as that's done through the account manager.

So you'll have to run boinccmd --join_acct_mgr bam.boincstats.com your_BAM_name your_BAM_password

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I have a user name on bam that is different from the one on seti@home, although the passwords are the same.

Very bad idea if you want to use BAM! as it's intended (as account manager:-).

The BAM! FAQs state:

BAM! doesn't find my existing accounts at the projects, while I'm sure they're there.

BAM! can only find accounts when the email address, the username and the password of the project are the same as those of BAM!. Check these at the project, and change it when needed.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Unfortunately, I've been a seti@home user for much longer than BAM, and by the time I found that my username had been taken. Without giving up my original user name, not sure that there is a solution for that.

Anyway, as it did last time I tried, that attach command appeared to complete successfully. However, my project status continues to appear as though the machine is not doing anything. I'm wondering if by trying to attach to both projects and manager, whether something is messed up. Getting project status gives me this:

======== Projects ========
1) -----------
name:
master URL: http://www.climateprediction.net/
user_name:
team_name:
resource share: 100.000000
user_total_credit: 0.000000
user_expavg_credit: 0.000000
host_total_credit: 0.000000
host_expavg_credit: 0.000000
nrpc_failures: 9
master_fetch_failures: 0
master fetch pending: no
scheduler RPC pending: no
attached via Account Manager: no
ended: no
suspended via GUI: no
don't request more work: no
disk usage: 0.000000
last RPC: 1283516769.938848
project files downloaded: 0.000000

So if it isn't attached via Account Manager, that may be the problem. How do I get all the attachments straightened out? At this point is it best to delete the whole boinc directory and start over?

I don't have access to a gui on my linux box, and am stumped on how to get boinc to start doing any work.
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I have other boxes running these same projects, but those have been set up for a long time (meaning I have forgotten what tricks, if any, I needed) and I have a gui on those machines...

Why don't you use the BOINC manager on those other machines to remotely control the linux box? That might make things easier.

Did you check the console output file stdoutdae* (assuming there is one)?

Gruß,
Gundolf

Unfortunately, I've been a seti@home user for much longer than BAM, and by the time I found that my username had been taken.

The unique identifier for BOINC is the email address, not the user's nickname. You can only use your email address once to register an account with, but there can be plenty of people there called Dave (example name).

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That works, thank you. I didn't know I could use one machine to manage another, but now I seem to be getting downloads to work on.