Hello,

I like running BOINC in GUI mode so I double click on boincmgr file to execute it. But unfortunatelly in new (5.8.11) version it doesn't run BOINC but only GUI manager so I have to execute BOINC separately. Interesting is that when I run boincmgr from console everything is just fine, BOINC and GUI manager are being executed. Second problem is when i want to exit BOINC program because only GUI manager is being closed, BOINC itself is not. Everything worked for me in previous (5.4.11) version just fine, now something is broken. What can I do to fix it?

UPDATE

Oh I'm sorry it looks like I have missed this post
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=1551

When I execute like that "exec ./boincmgr $@" it works as it should. Still, this does not explain why previous method doesn't work in new version but at least there is a workaround for it.

You should use run_manager script, which changes to the correct working directory before starting manager.

You should use run_manager script, which changes to the correct working directory before starting manager.

How do I find out where the scripts are and is there any way of running the client automatically? New to Linux... I am using Ubuntu and have installed a .deb of the client.
TIA

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How do I find out where the scripts are and is there any way of running the client automatically? New to Linux... I am using Ubuntu and have installed a .deb of the client.
TIA

/etc/init.d/boinc-client should be the location of the script installed by the .deb file. Most of your BOINC files and the project directories will be in /var/lib/boinc-client, except for a few which are in /etc/boinc-client

If you have the /etc/init.d/boinc-client script, then the core client should start automatically. There should be a link to the BOINC manager in Application/Accessories.