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Message 671575 - Posted: 3 Nov 2007, 15:18:24 UTC

Has anyone tried to run BOINC as a service on Leopard? I tried the same script to do this as I had working in Tiger, but though it adds the BOINC executable to /Library/Startup Items, it never runs.

I would greatly prefer to run this as a background service and just use the manager to set prefs and whatnot...or (if anyone in the development team is reading) have an option to not have the Dock/Menu Bar icons (I don't use the screensaver).

Any assistance would be appreciated.
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Message 672448 - Posted: 5 Nov 2007, 5:30:39 UTC - in response to Message 671575.  
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Any assistance would be appreciated.

Type this line of code into your Terminal, or place it in .profile, or use it as a cron job... The possibilities are endless as to how to execute it, but it'll do the trick at getting boinc up and running, out of sight out of mind... ;)

/Applications/BOINCManager.app/Contents/Resources/boinc -redirectio -dir /Library/Application\\ Support/BOINC\\ Data/ &


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