Does anyone know how to get boinc running ??
RavenOak
ravenoak at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 23:45:39 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:36 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi Rick and Others;
>
> At the risk of appearing extremely dumb; I have put off diving into
> security matters like iptables. When the time comes, after looking at
> 'man iptables', it is obviously going to take several days, weeks
> months. So...
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 13:21 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 00:57 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > Hi;
> > >
> > > Just downloaded and installed boinc. I keep getting the error message
> > > "BOINC Manager is not able to connect to a BOINC client.
> > > Would you like to try to connect again?"
> > >
> > > I am flumexed. It ran without problems under FC6. I have tried
> > > everything I can think of to trace back the problem. Could it be a
> > > SElinux problem? There are no SELinux trouble shooter warnings.
> > >
> > > I installed it from root into a folder in user but all the permissions
> > > look right? Boinc_mgr opens but remains a sleeping process while it
> > > tries to connect.
> > >
> > > I am running F7. All suggestions warmly received.
> >
> > Sure your firewall is permitting it? Try turning off iptables and
> > running it. If it works, put a rule in that opens the port.
> >
> How do I turn off iptables in order to try running boinc? If it works,
> I suppose I will have to climb into iptables before I planned to so that
> I can write a rule.
> --
> Regards Bill
If you are using the default iptables rules, you shouldn't need to do
that...but in case: run `service iptables stop` as root or
`sudo /sbin/service iptables stop` if you have sudo set up.
--Tim
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