I already have BOINC working properly on my linux box, but I would like to have an OpenBSD server. I compiled BOINC 4.11 as per the instructions, and I connect it to the server, but I get the following messages:

2004-10-21 11:44:07 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.11 for i386-unknown-openbsd3.5
2004-10-21 11:44:07 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-10-21 11:44:07 [climateprediction.net] Host ID is 59484
2004-10-21 11:44:07 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2004-10-21 11:44:07 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [climateprediction.net] Requesting 16474 seconds of work
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [climateprediction.net] Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [climateprediction.net] Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [climateprediction.net] Message from server: platform \'i386-unknown-openbsd3.5\' not found
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [climateprediction.net] No work from project
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [climateprediction.net] No work from project
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2004-10-21 11:44:09 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds

How can I get it to do work?

Does this thread help in any way?

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=289

> Does this thread help in any way?
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> http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=289
>
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Not really... although I guess I could use linux emulation, I would prefer to use the native OpenBSD version I compiled (as the instructions said to do if I didn't run Linux, OS X, or Windows).

> > Does this thread help in any way?
> >
> > http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=289
> >
> >
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> Not really... although I guess I could use linux emulation, I would prefer to
> use the native OpenBSD version I compiled (as the instructions said to do if
> I didn't run Linux, OS X, or Windows).
>
The CPDN software itself, not the BOINC software, is compiled with the Intel Linux Fortran compiler. The source code isn't available to recompile. I believe that is why you need to have Linux emulation. But someone can correct me if that's wrong.

Same problem as Akira here; running OpenBSD 3.6.
Can't get the Linux version to run either, it bails out instantly:
./boinc_4.09_i686-pc-linux-gnu
Abort trap
(ie, SIGABRT -- game over)

If climateprediction.net only supports GNU/Linux-x86, MacOSX and Winblows, why do they suggest we recompile BOINC for our platform?
It also tricked me into thinking this project was open-source, I feel like my time was wasted here...

> It also tricked me into thinking this project was open-source, I feel like my
> time was wasted here...
>

That's odd; CPDN's client is proprietary software of the British Met. Office. Where did you find this trick?


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