Hi,

I've installed BOINC yesterday and added the daemon to start at boot.

But the daemon (/etc/init.d/boinc start) just don't give the console back. It says "Starting BOINC ... [OK]" and stay on it forever.
When I boot now, the boot stop at Starting BOINC and just never continue.

So, is there a way to modify the init script so it'll give back the console to the boot process ?
Thanks

Adding --detach as a command to Boinc will kill the terminal window, after Boinc has started. I think you'd also need --redirectio, to make sure output goes to the std*.txt files, and not to the now closed command line window.

So that would make Boinc need to start with: boinc --redirectio --detach
Also see the other command line options.

One other thing you may want to do is add a start-up delay, in the form of a cc_config.xml file in the BOINC data directory, containing in the least:

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
</log_flags>
<options>
<start_delay>N</start_delay>
</options>
</cc_config>

Where N is any number resembling the amount of seconds you want it to stop. E.g. <start_delay>30</start_delay> will stop BOINC from starting up for 30 seconds.

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Jord, according to the Wiki the <start_delay> means

Specify a number of seconds to delay running applications after client startup

I don't think it'll have any effect on the startup for BOINC itself - in fact, thinking about it, BOINC will have to be running in order to read cc_config.xml

Yeah ok, I said that wrong. I won't have any effect on starting up BOINC, but it will have an effect on its resource use when starting up. I can imagine (and see it here on Windows) that it starts up as soon as possible, the science applications start using resources you don't want them to use yet (memory, CPUs). This start delay prohibits that. It'll start BOINC, but won't start up the science applications until after these amount of seconds are run. Which may make the start-up sequence a little smoother.

I also see we don't need the cc_config.xml for the start delay. It can also be done from the command line.

So that makes starting BOINC like this: boinc --redirectio --start_delay 30 --detach

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Where did you get the init.d script? The one I use is here.

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Kathryn :o)

If you are using the gentoo ebuild then this thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-835570-highlight-boinc.html from the Gentoo forums should help you Ulrar.

--background /

needs to be added to the eval statement.

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