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Richard Bonomo

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Message 1225335 - Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 15:45:12 UTC

Hello! I am interesting in letting BOINC/seti@home run overnight when the computer is not in use and not being backed up. As far as I can tell, this is not happening right now. Does anyone know how to get
BOINC manager (or equivalent) to run un-attended, when no-one is logged in? Would a cron job do the trick? Thank you.

BOINC 6.12.35 (Power PC)
wxWidgets version 2.8.10

Model Name: Power Mac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac7,3
Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Processor Speed: 1.8 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 900 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.8f7

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Message 1225341 - Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 16:09:56 UTC - in response to Message 1225335.  

See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Tools_for_Mac_OS_X#Running_BOINC_as_a_daemon_or_system_service
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Message 1226679 - Posted: 3 May 2012, 15:01:17 UTC - in response to Message 1225341.  

Thanks for the information! I will give it a whirl...

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