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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Nice one Dagorath, mind if I post a link from the BOINC@Australia team wiki pointing to your article as a way to set up FC5? If I can also add one thing it isn't necessary to issue the run_client command before the run_manager - the manager will start the client and the benefit of this is that File/Exit will also halt the client. The instructions that come with BOINC don't make this clear at all, and I used to use both commands, but had no idea how to stop the client from running other than rebooting the box  One problem with the above method though, and it only appears to affect Einstein, is that the stderr.txt file is blank unless you start the client first. Flattery and free tips will get you anything you want, mate Of course, you can link it. And I will be linking yours when I update mine with the excellent tip you've provided. Tell you the truth, I'm not sure where I got the impression it's necessary to run both run_client and run_manager. When you run binstall.sh it says run run_manager, it doesn't mention run_client. Oh well, it's sorted now, thanks. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello again.
----------------------------------------I got the Gedit up with the space used but hereś what comes up now... (gedit:7626): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. I'm not sure how significant that is given that Gedit does open. New NOOB question..Do the line numbers have to be included as per section 4 of Autostart BOINC at login instructions. I tried it without them, saved the file but no go on the autostart. I also lost most of my network connectivity somewhere. I did download and install Samba but can't work out how to configure that either from the instructions at http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/N...amba_Network_File_Sharing Again I get the config utility open but can't work out where to enter the required fields. This is all soooooo unfamiliar to me. [edit] spelling corrected Cheers ozylynx [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 26, 2006 7:31:46 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The line numbers should not be included and my article should mention that. I'll make appropriate changes to the article.
----------------------------------------The GnomeUI-WARNING is just a warning not an error. I get it too and I think it's because we log in as a user rather than root, as per the instructions, and then use su at the command line to login as root. I gather the warning comes up because we are editing root's file (profile) when we are not really root but I could be totally wrong about that. Anyway, I'm sure that's not the reason why BOINC doesn't autostart for you. Open /etc/profile with gedit again and check that you have typed the commands correctly. Delete the ./run_client & line because it isn't necessary. Then you should have: cd /home/USERNAME/bin/BOINC ./run_manager & Those should be the last 2 lines in the file. You must substitute your username for USERNAME. Every period, slash and space character must be exactly as above or it will not work. Notice there is a space between cd and /home and a period and foreslash preceeding the run_manager, there is a space between run_manager and the &. Sorry, I can't help you with SAMBA. It installed when I installed Linux and as far as I can tell it works properly here. I've never had to mess with the SAMBA configuration so I've never been forced to learn anything about it. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 26, 2006 10:50:11 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thanks Dagorath,
That fixed it, I was missing the period before the command line! Don't know if I mentioned before that my eyesight is really bad. It makes it almost impossible to browse WIKIs and how to files as by the time I find what I'm looking for my eyes are so tired I can't read any longer. Any way BOINC autostarts now so I'll annoy somebody else, probably in the Fedora forum about Samba config. Thanks to everyone who helped out.Cheers ozylynx. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
ozylynx,
----------------------------------------Being a Linux newbie with failing eyesight, I know how easy it is to miss that period. That's why I put it in a larger font. Due to a bug in the software that produces this forum, we can't have large font in black, it has to be a different color. Don't interpret the red as a sign that I was annoyed, it's just that red stands out well Glad to have been some help but I fear I may have caused some damage too. The advice in my article regarding setting the hostname is not correct for some circumstances though it seems to work in my case. Please take another look at that article in a day or 2, I will have it corrected by then. If we're lucky it will help fix your other network problems. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 27, 2006 12:35:03 AM] |
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Sekerob
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In search of the ol SCO Xenix manuals StumbledUpon A set of UNIX and Linux tutorials, manuals and reference guides, including a dedicated beginners and advanced forum and anything in between....... and here a map of Linux evolution: Linux Distro Timeline (Only for those who see the genealogy of an OS as a religion).
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Sekerob
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Considering my options.... here a place to help making a decision on what Distro is most suitable:Linux Distribution Chooser
----------------------------------------And the recommendations for me were Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Mandriva..... any thoughts to share with a future noob on linux?
WCG
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi Sekerob,
I was a semi literate windoze user about 6 months ago and had a problem with a virus and I was explaining my woes to a friend who laughed and said HE ran Linux and didn't get viruses but he scanned so as not to pass windows viruses on to others. This tempted me and after checking out some nice free disks of Ubuntu and Kubuntu ( in my case these are now lovely drinks coasters while I crunch) I now run Open Suse version 10.1 This has worked out for me very well as a kde desktop allows me to experiment and slowly lose the windows way. Also everything can pretty much be done with GUI. I do use the Command Line Interface now and then as I learn. It is quicker but the KDE desktop allows me to learn it much more slowly. I am basically an online gamer who crunches and surfs the net. Within an hour I was using Firefox as my browser, open office for all my docs and spreadsheets and thunderbird for mail. I with a little help also configured my Nvidia grafix card and downloaded a kernel for 64 bit support with hyperthreading and then put my game Unreal Tournament on and it runs LOL. This is just my personal opinion but suse with a KDE desktop has lots of similar functions to windows and also has lots of eye candy available if you so desire, it also has lots of applications available. I run boinc client through kboincspy. If you want to ask any other questions noob to noob so to speak then feel free you can pm me if it works on this forum (I'm not sure I've seen it) |
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One nice thing about Linux is it's free. Try a distro and if you don't like it then download a different one and test drive it. I bought The Linux Bible, 2005 edition by Christopher Negus, (Wiley) which came with a DVD and a CD bearing 10 distros. The book gives an excellent history of Linux and Unix and the free software movement in addition to good advice up to the intermediate level. It's not a technical reference but it has helped me.
----------------------------------------Ubuntu, Mandriva and Kubuntu are not amongst the distros in Linux Bible 2005 so I didn't try those. I settled on Fedora Core because: 1. The GUI installer was easy, the defaults worked whenever I was unsure. 2. It has the KDE desktop or Gnome desktop. 3. Has RPM and PuP which make updating the OS, applications and utilities very easy. 4. I like the default desktop theme / colors If you just want something small and fast to run BOINC on then maybe DSL is for you. If you want something that includes a big office suite and does everything Windows does then you want something like Open Suse or Fedora. The bottom line is that they are all based on the same kernel so they are all quite similar. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 28, 2006 7:11:47 PM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi Again all.
Just to let you know I haven't abandoned this thread. My bike has needed some attention lately, so no further progress with the Linux. I too have tried most of the Distros, main exception being SUSE as it locked up during install. I will probably download a fresh copy and try again later. Fedora does seem closest to my Windows experience thus far so that's the weapon of choice for now. Simply Mepis has a lot going for it too, but I had major problems with font sizes, particularly in the Konsole which was so small I could barely read it on a 21" monitor with a magnifying glass held to the screen.  An observation: As I was advised, Linux claims only about half of the point score of Windows based machines for the same work. My computer was, under Windows, most often the highest claiming box in the quorum and still is, under Linux!! This leads me to think that maybe, certain work is distributed to OS specific boxen. If my suspicion is true, would it be possible to have the results "scaled up" in the same way that BOINC points scores are scaled up by a factor of 7 already? If, as I believe is the case, the results are returned to WCG before being forwarded to the BOINC statistics servers, the "scale up" would need to be performed prior to the results being forwarded. The current system seems to treat Linux users unfairly. The question is not why, but how can the problem best be addressed?  Any ideas or suggestions?Cheers ozylynx |
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