[ericjwolfe]

I am currently running setiathome (boinc_3.20_powerpc-apple-darwin) on a 1 GHz PowerPC G4 with 384 MB SDRAM with Mac OS X v.10.3.4. From your email I know that boinc_3.20 can not work with climateprediction so I setup and account and downloaded boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin.
Using the following terminal commands I attempted to install:
chmod +x/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC/boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin<return>
cd /Applications/climateprediction-BOINC<return>
./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin<return>
I received "permission denied" and was not able to run the program. I am not a very experienced UNIX user. Should I first detach setiathome and then run climateprediction or can they both run at the same time? I am also new to MacNN and would like to join the climateprediction and setiathome teams using boinc. Thanks for your time and trouble.

ericjwolfe with mac dot com

edited so the email link cannot be harvested by spam bots

[reader50]

Can you post what the Terminal window says? Permissions errors are easy to fix, but we need to see the text from the window.

[mikkyo]

reader50 means in your case to
cd /Applications/climateprediction-BOINC
ls -al

[ericjwolfe]

reader 50: thanks for the reply. This is a copy of the terminal shell window:
cpe-66-8-254-18:~ ericjwolfe$ cd /Applications/climateprediction-BOINC
cpe-66-8-254-18:/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC ericjwolfe$ ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin -add_project
-bash: ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin: Permission denied
cpe-66-8-254-18:/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC ericjwolfe$ ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin
-bash: ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin: Permission denied
cpe-66-8-254-18:/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC ericjwolfe$

[mikkyo]

chmod a+rx ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin

might help you

[ericjwolfe]

Originally posted by reader50:
Can you post what the Terminal window says? Permissions errors are easy to fix, but we need to see the text from the window.

This is a copy of the shell window:
cpe-66-8-254-18:~ ericjwolfe$ cd /Applications/climateprediction-BOINC
cpe-66-8-254-18:/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC ericjwolfe$ ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin -add_project
-bash: ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin: Permission denied
cpe-66-8-254-18:/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC ericjwolfe$ ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin
-bash: ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin: Permission denied
cpe-66-8-254-18:/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC ericjwolfe$

[ericjwolfe]

Originally posted by mikkyo:
chmod a+rx ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin

might help you

Mikkyo thanks, it worked I think
copy of shell window:Last login: Mon Aug 9 15:48:31 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
You have mail.
cpe-66-8-254-18:~ ericjwolfe$ chmod a+rx ./boinc_4.02-powerpc-apple-darwin
chmod: ./boinc_4.02-powerpc-apple-darwin: No such file or directory
cpe-66-8-254-18:~ ericjwolfe$ chmod a+rx/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC/boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin
usage: chmod [-fv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] mode file ...
cpe-66-8-254-18:~ ericjwolfe$ cd /Applications/climateprediction-BOINC
cpe-66-8-254-18:/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC ericjwolfe$ chmod a+rx ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin
cpe-66-8-254-18:/Applications/climateprediction-BOINC ericjwolfe$ ./boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin
2004-08-09 16:13:48 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.02 for powerpc-apple-darwin
Enter the URL of the project: http://climateprediction.net
You should have already registered with the project
and received an account key by email.
Paste the account key here: [removed]
2004-08-09 16:15:45 [http://climateprediction.net/] Project prefs: using your defaults
2004-08-09 16:15:45 [http://climateprediction.net/] Host ID not assigned yet
2004-08-09 16:15:45 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2004-08-09 16:15:45 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2004-08-09 16:15:45 [---] Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
2004-08-09 16:16:46 [---] Benchmark results:
2004-08-09 16:16:46 [---] Number of CPUs: 1
2004-08-09 16:16:46 [---] 460 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2004-08-09 16:16:46 [---] 1438 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2004-08-09 16:16:46 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks
2004-08-09 16:16:47 [---] Resuming computation and network activity
2004-08-09 16:16:47 [---] CPU scheduler starvation imminent; requesting more work
2004-08-09 16:16:48 [---] CPU scheduler starvation imminent; requesting more work
2004-08-09 16:16:48 [http://climateprediction.net/] Requesting 17280 seconds of work
2004-08-09 16:16:48 [http://climateprediction.net/] Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
2004-08-09 16:16:49 [http://climateprediction.net/] Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-08-09 16:16:49 [climateprediction.net] Message from server: No work available (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
2004-08-09 16:16:49 [climateprediction.net] Message from server: No work available (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
2004-08-09 16:16:49 [---] Can't parse general preferences
2004-08-09 16:16:49 [---] Can't parse general preferences
2004-08-09 16:16:49 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-08-09 16:16:49 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds
2004-08-09 16:16:49 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds

Edit: removed account ID so no one can hijack your account

[mikkyo]

Yep looks like it worked.
In your first try to chmod the file you had a typo with no space after the a+rx.
It looks like you don't have enough free disk space to run their worker.
Better make a bunch of room.
How big are their files anyway?

[ericjwolfe]

Originally posted by mikkyo:
Yep looks like it worked.
In your first try to chmod the file you had a typo with no space after the a+rx.
It looks like you don't have enough free disk space to run their worker.
Better make a bunch of room.
How big are their files anyway?

Mikkyo: thanks again for all your help. I changed my account preferences to 40GB from 100GB. I don't know the size of their files. How can I join the team?

[mikkyo]

Got me. Im not in the Beta for Climate Prediction.

[fillmeup]

Looks like you found your way Eric!

[fillmeup]

BOINC launch set for 26th August!
Sylvia Knight
13.08.04

climateprediction.net will move onto the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) software platform on 26th August.
Members of the project team will be in Oxford, Stockholm and Berkeley for the launch. A press release will be available nearer the time.
New participants in climateprediction.net will be encouraged to use the new platform, however existing participants will be able to continue using the version of the experiment they are currently running, which will be supported indefinately.
Mac and Linux users will be able to participate for the first time.

-Please excuse the copy/paste. Good news for anyone on the team wanting to join.