Boinc problems ??

[William Case]

Thanks Adalbert;

Mostly joy.

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 00:56 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> William Case wrote on Friday 20 June 2008:
> 
> > I have no $HOME/BOINC;  (I used to in Fedora 8)
> > yum installed all boinc files in /var/lib/boinc/ including
> > gui_rpc_auth.cfg.
> 
> If gui_rpc_auth.cfg is there and readable for you, then
> 
> cd /var/lib/boinc; boincmgr

needed cd /var/lib/boinc; sudo boincmgr
Doesn't ask for a password.  Don't know why.

> 
> should start the manager. If this works, you can fill /var/lib/boinc into 
> the field "working directory" in your menu entry.
> 
Don't have a working directory field in the menu entry that I know of,
just a command line -- but I can't get the above command (or variations)
to launch from the menu or Icon/launcher.

I am getting forgetful, tired and old -- or all three.  I'll leave it
until tomorrow.

> -- 
> bye,
> Adalbert
> 
> Memory fault -- brain fried
> 
-- 
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1