setiathome

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gerard Seibert
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:18 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: setiathome

> ********** Reply Separator **********
> Tuesday, September 21, 2004 6:11:39 PM
>
> Have you actually tried to compile and run the latest version - 4.09 on
> a FreeBSD machine?

su root
fetch
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/source/nightly/boinc_public-cvs-2004-09-21.zip
cd /usr/ports
cd archivers
cd unzip
make install
(while making, curse the idiocy of whomever decided not to use gzip)
cd ~
rehash
unzip *.zip
cd boinc_public
./configure --disable-server
make
make check
make install
man boinc_client  (curse people who don't write manpages)
rehash
faxman# boinc_client
2004-09-21 23:37:18 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.10 for
i386-unknown-freebsd4.10
Enter the URL of the project: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
You should have already registered with the project
and received an account key by email.
Paste the account key here: (account key not shown)
2004-09-21 23:42:14 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Project prefs: using
your defaults
2004-09-21 23:42:14 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Host ID not assigned
yet
2004-09-21 23:42:14 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC
defaults
2004-09-21 23:42:14 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2004-09-21 23:42:14 [---] Suspending computation and network activity -
running CPU benchmarks
2004-09-21 23:43:16 [---] Benchmark results:
2004-09-21 23:43:16 [---]    Number of CPUs: 1
2004-09-21 23:43:16 [---]    249 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2004-09-21 23:43:16 [---]    648 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2004-09-21 23:43:16 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks
2004-09-21 23:43:17 [---] Resuming computation and network activity
2004-09-21 23:43:17 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-09-21 23:43:17 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-09-21 23:43:17 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280
seconds of work
2004-09-21 23:43:17 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending request to
scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-09-21 23:43:20 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler RPC to
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-09-21 23:43:20 [SETI at home] Message from server: platform
'i386-unknown-freebsd4.10' not found
2004-09-21 23:43:20 [SETI at home] Can't parse general preferences
2004-09-21 23:43:20 [SETI at home] Can't parse general preferences
2004-09-21 23:43:20 [SETI at home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home;
using your defaults
2004-09-21 23:43:20 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-09-21 23:43:20 [SETI at home] Requesting 17280 seconds of work
2004-09-21 23:43:20 [SETI at home] Sending request to scheduler:
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-09-21 23:43:23 [SETI at home] Scheduler RPC to
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-09-21 23:43:23 [SETI at home] Message from server: platform
'i386-unknown-freebsd4.10' not found
2004-09-21 23:43:23 [SETI at home] No work from project
2004-09-21 23:43:23 [SETI at home] No work from project
2004-09-21 23:43:23 [SETI at home] Deferring communication with project for 1
minutes and 0 seconds
2004-09-21 23:43:23 [SETI at home] Deferring communication with project for 1
minutes and 0 seconds
2004-09-21 23:44:24 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-09-21 23:44:24 [SETI at home] Requesting 17280 seconds of work
2004-09-21 23:44:24 [SETI at home] Sending request to scheduler:
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-09-21 23:44:29 [SETI at home] Scheduler RPC to
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-09-21 23:44:29 [SETI at home] Message from server: platform
'i386-unknown-freebsd4.10' not found
2004-09-21 23:44:29 [SETI at home] No work from project
2004-09-21 23:44:29 [SETI at home] No work from project
2004-09-21 23:44:29 [SETI at home] Deferring communication with project for 1
minutes and 0 seconds
2004-09-21 23:44:29 [SETI at home] Deferring communication with project for 1
minutes and 0 seconds

(pressed Cntl-C here)

^C2004-09-21 23:44:38 [---] Received signal 2
2004-09-21 23:44:39 [---] Exit requested by user



Seems to work fine here!!!

> I am on the BOINC forum, and there are horror stories
> there about individuals that have not been able to get BOINC compiled
> and running correctly.

Oh sure, no doubt a collection of "I cd'd into /usr/ports/someplace and ran
somesuch and why didn't a binary come down and install, where's rpm, where's
rpm manager, I wanna go hoooommme wahhhhh!!!"

> There was some serious work done on version 4.05,
> but it was not perfected. In addition, the GUI is not yet available for
> the non-windows version of BOINC, although hopefully it will be soon.
>

Well, that's your problem.  If the poster breathes a word about needing a
GUI
then they are probably incapabable of compiling software from source.

Note to folks - FreeBSD ain't Linux.  We compile binaries here, we don't
download someone else's.  rpm is a linux "thang" not a FreeBSD component.

Ted