> > If you shut the client down, and then restart it after the 24 hours has
> passed
> > since the last rejection then it will download work immediately. And for
> that
> > you could run it not in the background.
> >
> I did manage to do that, but it is very peculiar. When I run the boinc client
> in the foreground while logged in as boinc, it seems to run: two instances of
> climateprediction and two instances of setiathome. setiathome is silent, but
> clientprediction prints stuff like this:
>
> 23mc_100119001 - PH 1 TS 000383 - 08/12/1810 23:30 - H:M:S=0000:25:22 AVG=
> 3.97 DLT= 0.98

> I suppose this is correct.
>
> So I infer that my script in /etc/rc.d/init.d is not correct, though I started
> with something I got from one of the boinc sites. That script did not run
> right (the BOINC client exitted almost instantly, so I modified it to work
> with setiathome and predictor. But climatepredicition did not work, I see.).
>
I now have it working and it is running two instances of climateprediction and two of setiathome. I guess it is OK now. The script now looks like this, in case anyone cares; it is not ideal, but it works.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Red Hat Linux start/stop script to run the BOINC client in background
# at system startup, as the boinc user (not root).
#
# chkconfig: 345 71 29
# description: start boinc client at boot time
# processname: boinc
# config: /etc/sysconfig/boinc
#
# Eric Myers - 27 July 2004
# Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY
# @(#) $Revision: 1.5 $ -- $Date: 2004/07/27 14:43:24 $

declare -i CLIENT_PID

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
export PATH

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions


# Defaults, which can be overridden by /etc/sysconfig/boinc

BOINCUSER=boinc
BOINCDIR=/home/boinc
BUILD_ARCH=i686-pc-linux-gnu
LOGFILE=boinc.log
ERRORLOG=error.log

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/boinc ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/boinc
fi

## Locate the working directory

if [ ! -d $BOINCDIR ]; then
echo "Cannot find boinc directory $BOINCDIR "
exit 1
fi


## Locate the executable with highest version

BOINCEXE=`/bin/ls -1 $BOINCDIR/boinc_*_$BUILD_ARCH 2>/dev/null | tail -n 1 `
if [ ! -x "$BOINCEXE" ]; then
echo "Cannot find/run boinc executable $BOINCEXE "
exit 2
fi


## Functions: start/stop/status/restart

case "$1" in
start)
cd $BOINCDIR
if [ ! -f client_state.xml ] ; then
echo -n "BOINC client requires initialization first."
echo_failure
echo
exit 3
fi
echo -n "Starting BOINC client: "
su - boinc -c "$BOINCEXE >>$BOINCDIR/$LOGFILE 2>>$BOINCDIR/$ERRORLOG &"
echo
;;

stop)
killproc $BOINCEXE && echo_success || echo_failure
echo
;;

restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;

status)
PID=`pidof $BOINCEXE`
if [ "$PID" != "" ]; then
echo "BOINC client is running (pid $PID)."
else
echo "BOINC client is stopped."
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: boinc {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit

##