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 the email I know that boinc_3.20 can not work with climateprediction so I setup an account and downloaded boinc_4.02_powerpc-apple-darwin.

This is a copy of the terminal shell window showing the "permission denied" response:
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$

Update: success
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: 628d1934e9c161476cff0e8e666f12c3
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

You have Permission denied errors because you did not enter the correct commands to run the program.


>>> 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)

It is importent to set up your preferences before you run the programme.

btw - not a good idea to post your a/c key. You can edit your post to remove it.

K.