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Thread: Installed on Linux (Ubuntu), how to stop/ start? |
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chris_debian
Cruncher Joined: Dec 18, 2005 Post Count: 14 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi, all.
I've just installed BOINC so I can do some Human Proteome stuff. I followed the instructions and everything seems to be going well. Last few lines of output: 2005-12-18 17:52:15 [World Community Grid] Finished download of eb747_0B_aaeb74709_05.075_v1_3 2005-12-18 17:52:15 [World Community Grid] Throughput 41742 bytes/sec 2005-12-18 17:52:16 [---] request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded 2005-12-18 17:52:16 [World Community Grid] Starting result eb747_0B_3 using rosetta version 421 Just one question, how do I stop this when I log out, how do I restart it? I would prefer not to use CTRL+C ;-). BTW, will new work be downloaded automatically, if the client is running? Cheers, Chris. |
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Former Member
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hello chris_debian,
----------------------------------------You should have a simple single-user configuration, so just log on and shut down (or reboot) whenever you want to. Rosetta should start up automatically from its last check point. If you did not change the default installation, it will upload results and download new work units without any intervention on your part (if you have broadband internet access). mycrofth [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 18, 2005 6:53:26 PM] |
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chris_debian
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mycrofth,
It should be a standard install that i've got. I did: ./boinc -attach_project www.worldcommunitygrid.org cfc8017a6a533f6aaa0843a1362933ce So nothing to kill, just log out and shutdown? Like the sound of that. i thought i'd have to pout something in my .profile or something. Cheers, Chris. |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Chris,
Take a look at this help item (and the links contained within it). They should provide you with some ideas on how to make BOINC start automatically when you login. https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=boinc#175 Kevin |
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chris_debian
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Kevin,
Thanks for that. I may just start it manually, then I have the choice. Guessing I do this by cd'ing to the BOINC directory and typing ./boinc. I have a spare box which I may just use for this work. It is an older Pentium, but at least I could leave it running permanently. I wonder whether any work is being done to get large corporations to utilise their desktops, after office hours? Thanks. Chris. |
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Former Member
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I would prefer not to use CTRL+C ;-). You can use the command to stop running boinc - pkill boinc  |
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chris_debian
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Well, I can think of worse things to do. How can I help? I'm so impressed with this stuff, I have decided that when I log-in, I would like the client to start in a terminal window (so I can see it doing stuff). Just need to sort out doing this automatically on log-in. I think this is documented (sort-of). I'm just building another linux box, which will just run permanently, dedicated to this task. Cheers, Chris. |
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Former Member
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In case this is of interest to anyone else, about half the time when I close the lid on my laptop (it does NOT go into standby) or suspend to disk, rosetta will go "defunct" (as determined using ps -e ) so I have to kill it and restart it.
I wrote two little scripts to just that, and put a link to the restart_grid script on my desktop. I used the boinc .png file for that link too, so it looks a little shnazzy. You would have to modify the path for where you have boinc installed. #! /bin/bash # restart_grid script # script to kill and then restart boinc as it doesn't behave well when I close the laptop lid killall -w rosetta_4.21_i6 boinc /home/user/bin/start_grid #! /bin/bash # start_grid script # start boinc client for World Community Grid cd ./downloads/BOINC nice ./boinc >/dev/null & R.Deschene Dell Latitude C600, PP01L (Pentium III, 700MHz, 128MB RAM, 20GB HD) Suse 9.2 |
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steffen_moeller
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The Debian/Ubuntu package comes with a script to start/stop the client. Run /etc/init.d/boinc-client stop or /etc/init.d/boinc-client start, respectively.
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