I have my boinc machine offline most of the time so I see a lot of the above message. Now, the machine has completed a work unit and the darn machine is just setting idle waiting for another 5 days to connect.

I\'ve tried to reset the connection via the command line but no joy. How can I kick start this beast?

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In command-line, you can start boinc with: ./boinc -return_results_immediately
In the gui, select CPDN and press the update button.

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Arnaud

In command-line, you can start boinc with: ./boinc -return_results_immediately

user6@mineboxen:~/downloads/weather$ ./boinc -return_results_immediately
2005-09-30 07:31:24 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.19 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2005-09-30 07:31:24 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2005-09-30 07:31:24 [climateprediction.net] Host ID is 98274
2005-09-30 07:31:24 [---] General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2005-01-29 23:28:48)
2005-09-30 07:31:24 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2005-09-30 07:31:24 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 4 days, 12 hours, 16 minutes, and 15 seconds
2005-09-30 07:31:24 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 4 days, 12 hours, 16 minutes, and 15 seconds


It\'s just sitting there like a lump on a log. Any other ideas???

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Try:
./boinc -update_prefs http://climateprediction.net

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Arnaud

Try:
./boinc -update_prefs http://climateprediction.net

user6@mineboxen:~/downloads/weather$ ./boinc* -update_prefs http://climateprediction.net
2005-09-30 11:24:53 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.19 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2005-09-30 11:24:53 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2005-09-30 11:24:53 [climateprediction.net] Host ID is 98274
2005-09-30 11:24:53 [---] General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2005-01-29 23:28:48)
2005-09-30 11:24:53 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2005-09-30 11:24:53 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 4 days, 8 hours, 22 minutes, and 46 seconds
2005-09-30 11:24:53 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 4 days, 8 hours, 22 minutes, and 46 seconds



I tried pretty much all the command line parameters that seemed appliciple. Any other thoughts? I hate wasting these CPU cycles......

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I\'m not a Linux person, so this is just a wild idea.
Try setting your clock/calendar forward 4 days, 8 hours, and then restarting BOINC. And reset to the present time afterwards.

I would try a newer version of BOINC, 4.19 is really outdated.

(Don\'t forget to make a backup of your BOINC directory first)

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Linux Users Everywhere @ BOINC

This is what I do:
Stop the client. Open client_state.xml with a text editor. Go down 53 lines to min_rpc_time and change the value to 0(zero).
Start the client and it will connect immediately.

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