Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Begin by installing the BOINC manager and client:
$ su -c 'yum install boinc-manager boinc-client'
or:
$ sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager
To ensure that the BOINC client starts every time you boot the system, enter:
$ sudo systemctl enable boinc-client.service
Then reboot. If you would prefer to start the BOINC client manually, you can do so any
time with the following command:
$ systemctl start boinc-client.service
If your alien-hunting Pi will be devoted to the cause and not needing a monitor, you
have the option of installing only the client and starting it at boot. In this case, enter
only:
$ su -c yum install boinc-client
or:
$ sudo apt-get install boinc-client
Setting Up BOINC
The following instructions assume that you are using the BOINC Manager, which you
can find under System in the Applications Menu if you're using Fedora or start from
the command line by typing
boincmgr
. It might take a moment before anything appears
in the BOINC Manager window the first time. When it does start, you'll see the error
“Unable to connect to the core client.”
Open a terminal and first check that the BOINC Client is running:
$ sudo systemctl status boinc-client.service
You should see something similar to the following:
boinc-client.service - Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing Client
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed, 2013-04-17 14:37:22 EST; 1min ago
Process: 19413 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chown boinc:boinc /var/log/
boinc.log /var/log/boincerr.log (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 19410 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/touch /var/log/boinc.log /var/log/
boincerr.log (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 19406 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 1 (code=exited, status=0/
SUCCESS)
Main PID: 19416 (boinc)
