boidcmd

Boid CLI

A linux command line interface for Boid

From a fresh Debian/Ubuntu install:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash

command -v nvm

nvm install node

This CLI has only been tested on Debian and Ubuntu based distributions.

Setup

install this package first

$ npm install boidcmd -g

REQUIRED: you must first install boinc-client package.

sudo apt install boinc-client -y

Make sure to check that it is running, this can be done with the command:

$ boinccmd --get_state

if you get an authentication error code -155 , you will have to blank out the password in the file /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg ( the file just needs to be empty) and restart the boinc-client service.

$ service boinc-client restart
or
$ systemctl restart boinc-client

now setup boid by typing the following command:

$ boidcmd setup

additional commands can be found in the help menu

$ boidcmd help