Hi Adalbert; Now I am totally confused. On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 23:44 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote: > William Case wrote on Thursday 19 June 2008: > > Hello! > > > When I launch boincmgr I get the following error message: > > > > "Authorization failed connecting to running client. > > Make sure you start this program in the same directory as the > > client." > > > > They are both in /usr/bin/ and boinc_client is running happily. > > How exactly do you start boincmgr? > I tried using the launcher in menu that was placed there by the automatic installation when I yum install boinc; and, I tried boincmgr from the user command line. > Did you start boincmgr from the same directory where boinc is running, As > suggested by the error message? I have no $HOME/BOINC; (I used to in Fedora 8) yum installed all boinc files in /var/lib/boinc/ including gui_rpc_auth.cfg. I have executables for boinc_client and boincmgr in /usr/bin > Boincmgr is looking for the file > gui_rpc_auth.cfg in the current directory, i.e. if you have installed > boinc into ~/BOINC then > > cd $HOME; BOINC/boincmgr > > will not work, but > > cd $HOME/BOINC; ./boincmgr > > will. > > -- > Tschüss, > Adalbert Prokop > > mummy, n.: An Egyptian who was pressed for time. > -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
