I was wondering if it's possible to write a script that will display work unit progress/location/etc either on the command line or into a text file.

I know this used to be possible before BOINC but after doing a web search it appears all of the existing projects are long abandoned.

After searching, I managed to find the directory that the Seti@home files are located on Ubuntu Server 12.10 but they don't appear to be readable.

Any ideas if this is possible?

While not Python-scripts, BOINC itself has some official older CLI-versions here (at bottom).

There's also a newish 3rd party CLI-manager boinctui that works surprisingly well, although not fully yet. I saw packages for Ubuntu & Fedora there, though I downloaded source-code and compiled myself on Debian SID.

HTH :)

Thanks for the response. I've seen boinctui before but it was a bit more then I was looking for.

I think I may have figured it out. It looks like BOINC stores active work unit data in the client_state.xml file and is totally readable.

I'll just need to create a script to scrape that and display readable output.

Thanks again!

Ah, appears I misunderstood your question.

If you're going to scrape client_state.xml, perhaps consider if the included official boinccmd-tool is a better fit to pass info from, specifically the output from

boinccmd --get_tasks

or

boinccmd --get_state