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Former Member
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Hi all,
i'm new to BOINC. I'm running it on my Ubuntu web server and installed it via ssh, so there's no gui interface. I installed it yesterday and have run top and it is showing up as running. When I go to the stats page, it hasn't got any details about how long it's been running although it's been running almost a day. How do i ensure that it's running properly? I understand the stats are only updated twice a day, but thought something would be showing up by now. Any info appreciated, thanks, Ainslee |
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You can use boinccmd to check on progress.
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Hi Didactylos, I did that and it showed up as no results. I also tried get_project_status but it came up wih Authorization failure: -155. This has come up with a few other commands, which is making me think that I may not have it configured properly.
I'll explain how i set it up. I downloaded the .sh file and transferred it over to my web server and executed it. I then did ./run_client. I ran top after this which showed BOINC as running. In the time_stats_log it shows 1226195354.591353 power_on 1226195364.602191 net_unknown Not sure if that will help you in anyway. This is all new to me. Cheers, Ainslee |
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You should probably make sure you are running BOINC with the --redirectio switch*. This will automatically create log files with the messages produced by BOINC.
Authorization isn't needed if you run boinccmd from the same directory as boinc - but that can be less obvious than you hope. You can authorise explicitly using the convoluted hoop-jumping described for --passwd here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool and here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Controlling_BOINC_remotely * For some reason, BOINC have failed to document this. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Berkeley's documentation is worse than useless - outdated, misleading, incomplete. It's a nightmare, and David Anderson has done everything he can to keep it that way. |
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Former Member
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Ok, so i ran boinc_cmd from the same directory that BOINC is in. I did try the password, and came up with same results as it did without the password, which makes me think I don't require authorisation.
the Authorization failure: -155 doesn't seem to be coming up anymore either. I think now i'll just have to wait and see if my profile updates. I'm not concerned that it's not showing any project results yet, as I understand these may take awhile. My concern is that it shows up as 0 time running. Maybe i'm being impatient :) Thanks, Ainslee |
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What does top show?
You really need --redirectio, because that is the only way to get the message log. It should be in a file named stdoutdae.txt |
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top shows
14647 ainslee 15 0 5072 2052 1616 S 0 0.2 1:56.46 boinc i'll try redirectio and see if that does anything diff :), just trying to find the documentation for it. |
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i just noticed something, when i go back and look at what i've previously done, when i tried running ./boincmgr it returns Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?, which I didn't worry about because I'm not accessing BOINC via a gui, only via ssh.
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The boinc process doesn't do the work, other processes do the actual work. When I said show me top, I meant everything, not just the boinc line.
Yes, you will have trouble running BOINC Manager without a display. That's fine. |
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Ok, here's top in full
top - 13:51:25 up 26 days, 21:35, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.10, 0.03 Tasks: 84 total, 2 running, 82 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.1%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1035548k total, 947900k used, 87648k free, 221900k buffers Swap: 2097144k total, 0k used, 2097144k free, 447940k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 14647 ainslee 15 0 5072 2052 1616 S 1 0.2 1:58.77 boinc 18197 ainslee 15 0 2368 1148 876 R 0 0.1 0:00.07 top 1 root 15 0 2952 1852 532 S 0 0.2 0:04.95 init 2 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:03.87 migration/0 4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:13.12 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.71 migration/1 7 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.25 ksoftirqd/1 8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.90 events/0 10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:07.39 events/1 11 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.11 khelper 31 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:11.15 kblockd/0 32 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:06.35 kblockd/1 33 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 34 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 93 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.09 kseriod 120 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 1:07.39 pdflush 121 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:24.08 pdflush 122 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 174 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 175 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1 1125 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksnapd 2065 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0 2066 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1 2067 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux 2075 root 13 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 scsi_eh_0 2077 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 scsi_eh_1 2181 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2 2472 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:33.11 kjournald 2610 root 16 -4 2448 668 384 S 0 0.1 0:05.87 udevd 3507 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused 3692 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.13 kjournald 3693 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.85 kjournald 3694 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.28 kjournald 3695 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:21.08 kjournald 3696 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 8:12.64 kjournald 4001 root 15 0 1692 520 448 S 0 0.1 0:00.03 getty 4002 root 15 0 1696 516 448 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 getty 4004 root 15 0 1696 520 448 S 0 0.1 0:00.04 getty 4005 root 15 0 1692 516 448 S 0 0.0 0:00.05 getty 4012 root 15 0 1692 520 448 S 0 0.1 0:00.04 getty 4013 root 18 0 1696 516 448 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 getty 4051 syslog 16 0 1912 732 576 S 0 0.1 0:40.34 syslogd 4070 root 15 0 1840 536 444 S 0 0.1 0:00.25 dd 4072 klog 17 0 2508 1408 408 S 0 0.1 0:00.12 klogd 4090 messageb 15 0 2776 1024 848 S 0 0.1 0:00.10 dbus-daemon 4119 bind 18 0 45724 9824 2292 S 0 0.9 3:16.32 named 4149 root 22 0 5280 996 652 S 0 0.1 0:00.39 sshd 4184 amavis 15 0 29368 22m 2232 S 0 2.3 1:19.99 amavisd-new 4198 amavis 18 0 30136 22m 1644 S 0 2.2 0:00.12 amavisd-new 4199 amavis 19 0 30136 22m 1644 S 0 2.2 0:00.07 amavisd-new 4218 root 25 0 1756 532 444 S 0 0.1 0:00.11 mysqld_safe |
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