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tdulcet / Distributed-Computing-Scripts

🖧 Distributed Computing Scripts for GIMPS, BOINC and Folding@home
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scriptname typo #1

Open Wanabo opened 5 years ago

Wanabo commented 5 years ago

Hi, I was interested in using the BOINC script to contribute to the Seti@Home project.

Your setup instructions are pointing to: https://raw.github.com/tdulcet/Distributed-Computing-Scripts/master/boinc.sh

But your scriptname is in fact bonic.sh.

Questions: Does it work on Centos 7? What URL should I provide for Seti@Home? This: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ ?

Regards Wim.

tdulcet commented 5 years ago

Thanks for pointing out the typo! I will fix that.

There are more detailed instructions for the script on the bottom of this page. Click on "Linux Instructions" under "World Community Grid". The instructions are for World Community Grid, but it also explains how to use the script with any project that uses BOINC.

Does it work on Centos 7?

No, it currently only works on Linux distributions that use the apt package manager. Centos 7 uses yum. The script is really designed for installing on a headless computer or server. If this is the case, then you can replace these two lines: https://github.com/tdulcet/Distributed-Computing-Scripts/blob/b0cb86fed54e5ac59153d1cd93061e185c3877ae/bonic.sh#L36-L37 with:

sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install boinc-client boinc-manager

and it should work, although I do not have a Centos 7 system to test it on.

What URL should I provide for Seti@Home? This: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ ?

Yes.

Wanabo commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the additional information. The boinc-client and boinc-manager are available in the epel repo. So I think it will work with changing the script as you suggested to: sudo yum -y update sudo yum -y install boinc-client boinc-manager

Thanks and regards Wim.

tdulcet commented 5 years ago

Typo has been fixed in https://github.com/tdulcet/Distributed-Computing-Scripts/commit/040255563bdc737ebae6f5b694aa748b882cdd2b.