Is there a way to set up BOINC to work for machines in a "diskless" NIS/NFS environment? If starting the client on one machine, the prefs get written with host specific data for that machine, without being written to a host specific configuration file.

Do I really have to use an extra install directory for each and every host, and set the rc script to do something like "cd /path/to/boinc-$HOSTNAME && /path/to/boinc-binary"? That seems like an awful lot of waste, considering that most of the installation will get duplicated on all machines, and that each client by default wants 100GB (I know, it can be adjusted, but still!)

Also, the boinc client doesn't appear to obey signal handling correctly. When running attached to a tty, a HUP signal should terminate the client (like if started from a remote terminal that then goes away). Instead, the client continues running, feeding output to a non-existing tty.

Regards,
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*Art