setiathome

[Gerard Seibert]

On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:52:30 AM "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:

|>> -----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


********** Reply Separator **********
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:38:44 AM

OK, but why woud I want to run this command:
./configure --disable-server
Is there a specific reason that I would want or need to disable the
server?

Thanks!