I tried to use update prefs with no success, here is the log.

[root@RHL9Test boinc]# ./boinc_4.05_i686-pc-linux-gnu -update_prefs http:climateprediction.net
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.05 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [---] project http:climateprediction.net not found
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [---] project http:climateprediction.net not found
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [climateprediction.net] Host ID is 6708
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [---] General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2004-08-30 12:01:52)
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your
defaults
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [---] get_local_network_info(): gethostbyname failed
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [---] get_local_network_info(): gethostbyname failed
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [climateprediction.net] Resuming computation for result 01y4_400027509_0 using hadsm3 version 4.03
Starting model in /home/clucier/boinc/projects/climateprediction.net...
Created shared memory region key = 24975
Env Used=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/clucier/boinc/projects/climateprediction.net:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 6 days, 22 hours, 21 minutes, and 14 seconds
2004-09-08 12:09:40 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 6 days, 22 hours, 21 minutes, and 14 seconds
Starting model ID 01y4_400027509 Phase 1
Stack size=48.00 MB
Waiting for model startup, this may take a minute...
01y4_400027509 - PH 1 TS 059617 - 13/05/1814 00:30 - H:M:S=0141:09:14 AVG= 8.52
DLT= 0.00
01y4_400027509 - PH 1 TS 059618 - 13/05/1814 01:00 - H:M:S=0141:09:43 AVG= 8.52
DLT=29.23

Can anyone help?? Maybe I should have never left windows, my 5 XP boxes are running fine, never have to touch them :)

odd, it looks like when gethostbyname() fails BOINC assumes you're off the network so doesn't bother. Do you have a hostname setup, perhaps if you made an appropriate entry in /etc/hosts for your machine it would find it there (I assume that's always the easy default in there).

> odd, it looks like when gethostbyname() fails BOINC assumes you're off the
> network so doesn't bother. Do you have a hostname setup, perhaps if you made
> an appropriate entry in /etc/hosts for your machine it would find it there (I
> assume that's always the easy default in there).
>
>
>

I am a Linux Newbie, what do I do to add the "hosts" file? I mean what is in it, what is its name and where does it go?

> > odd, it looks like when gethostbyname() fails BOINC assumes you're off
> the
> > network so doesn't bother. Do you have a hostname setup, perhaps if you
> made
> > an appropriate entry in /etc/hosts for your machine it would find it
> there (I
> > assume that's always the easy default in there).
> >
> >
> >
>
> I am a Linux Newbie, what do I do to add the "hosts" file? I mean what is in
> it, what is its name and where does it go?
>
>

FYI I am running RHL 9

> > odd, it looks like when gethostbyname() fails BOINC assumes you're off
> the
> > network so doesn't bother. Do you have a hostname setup, perhaps if you
> made
> > an appropriate entry in /etc/hosts for your machine it would find it
> there (I
> > assume that's always the easy default in there).
> >
> >
> >
>
> I am a Linux Newbie, what do I do to add the "hosts" file? I mean what is in
> it, what is its name and where does it go?
>
>
/etc/hosts
# IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
There is usually a default file structured like this.It contains the localhost address 127.0.0.1, its name and its short name. Mine distro (SuSE 9.1) has also IPV6 address but that is not essential.

I think you should have done :
./boinc_4.05_i686-pc-linux-gnu -update_prefs http://climateprediction.net
instead of
./boinc_4.05_i686-pc-linux-gnu -update_prefs http:climateprediction.net