boinc_5.8.16 (Network Computing)

11/May/2007 tested on openSUSE 10.2

This steps will install a BOINC service as a daemon on openSUSE10.2. I modified boinc-suse-1.1.1.tar.gz (init master file) to create a log file automatically if not exists. This steps also include a logrotate configuration.

Installation

Download the latest boinc binary as boinc_5.8.16_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/index.php

Installer requires a GUI screen, so you should be using X Window. Install boinc as,

# mv boinc_5.8.16_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh /usr/local
# cd /usr/local
# chmod +x boinc_5.8.16_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
# ./boinc_5.8.16_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
# /usr/local/BOINC/run_manager

Use an account manager to control multiple machines, as bam.boincstats.com or gridrepublic.org

Create /etc/init.d/boinc as,

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          boinc
# Required-Start:    $ALL
# Should-Start: $ALL
# Required-Stop:     $ALL
# Should-Stop: $ALL
# Default-Start:     3 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 2 6
# Short-Description: boinc daemon
# Description:       Start boinc for distributed computing processes
#       e.g. Seti@Home
### END INIT INFO

# Check for missing binaries (stale symlinks should not happen)
# Note: Special treatment of stop for LSB conformance
BOINC_DIR=/usr/local/BOINC
BOINC_USER=nobody
BOINC_LOGFILE=/var/log/boinc
BOINC_BIN=$BOINC_DIR/boinc
test -f $BOINC_LOGFILE || touch $BOINC_LOGFILE ; chown $BOINC_USER $BOINC_LOGFILE
test -x $BOINC_BIN || { echo "$BOINC_BIN not installed";
        if [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then exit 0;
        else exit 5; fi; }
. /etc/rc.status
# Reset status of this service
rc_reset

case "$1" in
    start)
        echo -n "Starting boinc "
        ## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails
        ## the return value is set appropriately by startproc.
        cd $BOINC_DIR
        chown $BOINC_USER $BOINC_LOGFILE
        startproc -u $BOINC_USER -l $BOINC_LOGFILE -s $BOINC_BIN -dir $BOINC_DIR

        # Remember status and be verbose
        rc_status -v
        ;;
    stop)
        echo -n "Shutting down boinc "
        ## Stop daemon with killproc(8) and if this fails
        ## killproc sets the return value according to LSB.

        killproc -TERM $BOINC_BIN

        # Remember status and be verbose
        rc_status -v
        ;;
    try-restart|condrestart)
        ## Do a restart only if the service was active before.
        ## Note: try-restart is now part of LSB (as of 1.9).
        ## RH has a similar command named condrestart.
        if test "$1" = "condrestart"; then
                echo "${attn} Use try-restart ${done}(LSB)${attn} rather than condrestart ${warn}(RH)${norm}"
        fi
        $0 status
        if test $? = 0; then
                $0 restart
        else
                rc_reset        # Not running is not a failure.
        fi
        # Remember status and be quiet
        rc_status
        ;;
    restart)
        ## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was
        ## running or not, start it again.
        $0 stop
        $0 start

        # Remember status and be quiet
        rc_status
        ;;
    force-reload)
        ## Actually restarts the service
        $0 try-restart
        rc_status
        ;;
    reload)
        ## Actually does nothing
        rc_failed 3
        rc_status -v
        ;;
    status)
        echo -n "Checking for service boinc "
        ## Check status with checkproc(8), if process is running
        checkproc $BOINC_BIN
        rc_status -v
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|try-restart|restart|force-reload|reload}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
rc_exit

Execute boinc as,

# chown nobody:nobody -R /usr/local/BOINC/
# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/boinc
# chkconfig boinc on
# /etc/init.d/boinc start

Create a logrotate entry as /etc/logrotate.d/boinc so the logfile can rotate.

/var/log/boinc {
    daily
    compress
    dateext
    notifempty
    rotate 10
    missingok
    create 600 nobody nobody
    postrotate
     /etc/init.d/boinc restart
    endscript
}

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