Instructions for that are here . For wget use, the init.d script is at http://www.spy-hill.net/~myers/help/boinc/init.d/boinc . My version of instructions are below, which may be helpful suplemental to or instead of those on that page.


Download the file to /etc/init.d or your equivalent directory.

For it to work, you may need to change the first line to read '#/bin/bash' and set the variables to appropriate values:
BOINCUSER is, I believe, the user name of the owner of your boinc directory.
BOINCDIR is the location of your BOINC directory (e.g., /home/user/boinc)
BUILD_ARCH is... I forget, but it should be set to a reasonable default or explain further in the script's comments
BOINCEXE is the location of the program you run to run boinc. It needs to be in $PATH, so if you downloaded the program from the website instead of installing it from a package manager you might need to create a script in /usr/bin (or equivalent) to start boinc, and put the name of this script under BOINCEXE. An easy command for this is:

"sudo echo -e #/bin/bash\ncd /home/user/boinc\n./boinc >> /usr/bin/boinc ; sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/boinc"

...replacing "/home/user/boinc" with your BOINC directory, of course. Then set BOINCEXE to "boinc"

EDIT: If I recall correctly, you can't just use the path of the program (e.g., /home/user/boinc/boinc) for this because it uses the value of this variable to check whether the boinc process is already running)

Next, you will need to configure it to start when you boot the computer. I usually use sysv-rc-conf for messing with services; if you do too, start it, scroll down to the new boinc entry, select the collumn for your default runlevel/s and press space. This is what will make the service start when you boot.


I think I had to do a little extra editing to actually get it to work... something about lockfiles. When you run the client manually, it makes a lockfile which isn't removed when the client exits; so you might need to either remove it manually before starting the service the first time, or edit the script to ignore it. I can probably be a little more helpful once I get home.

Thanks for your help guys! I took your tips and it's working nicely here, I really appreciate your time!

Best wishes,

Filipe Borges

Too easy, Hans. :)

KSMarksPsych: That's neat. I solved it by commenting out the lines that checked for the lockfile (148-150ish), but that would probably work better....

Sure enough, I uncommented said lines and it works normally. Which probably means that the easiest solution would be to just remove the lockfile before the first run. ;p