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Old 03-17-2008, 06:09 AM
Clever Monkey
 
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Default Re: wish list Boinc client in port or pkg

never@found.can wrote:
> Clever Monkey <spamtrap@clevermonkey.org.INVALID> wrote in
> news:frbind$354$1@aioe.org:
>
>> never@found.can wrote:
>>> I admit I am not a coder. At one time you could download the pkg and
>>> install the Seti@home and run it. Now you have to compile and a lot
>>> of other stuff just to get the client to run and I have yet to figure
>>> it out. It woud be great for people like me to have a pkg or port to
>>> compile and configure the Boinc client program. I have several
>>> OpenBSD severs that just sit idle 18 hours a day and 24 hours on
>>> weekends.
>>>

>> At one time the easiest thing to do was to run the Linux version of
>> the software in emulation mode. I did this for years. Now I want my
>> boxes to be as idle as possible and perhaps use less electricity, so I
>> turfed it.

>
> Thanks I will research on running in emu mode. Do have any links for good
> reading for this?
>

In all seriousness, I just read the package docs for the Linux emul
stuff, and the man page for emulation modes. You might have to tweak
sysconfig to enable Linux emulation as well, but this is documented in
the man page.
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