Hi,

I have been failing to find with various searches how to do the following: if anyone can point me at the right page I'd be grateful.

I'd like to disable/enable running tasks under additional criteria on my MacBook (MBA, Yosemite), eg from the command-line, eg even when on mains not to run unless the battery has fully charged, but possibly other things also.

Rgds

Damon

The BOINC command too will allow you to control BOINC from a commandline, or via scripts. If there is no OS event that would signify when the battery is fully charged. Perhaps a script to monitor the battery level could be used. Then it could run the correct command to suspend or resume BOINC.

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Hi,

That's what I was hoping, thanks.

With your push I have found the data at:

/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data

and the code at:

/Applications/BOINCManager.app/Contents/Resources/boinc

(I can't see a boinccmd there, BTW)

though at the moment I'm just getting a:

Another instance of BOINC is running.

so maybe I would have to live with either/or for command-line and GUI.

Thanks

Damon

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For some reason they don't distribute boinccmd with the GUI version of BOINC for the Mac. So you can download the (Unix command-line version) for your version of BOINC, extract boinccmd, & then place it in the /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/ folder.
Depending on your system you may also need to fix the file permissions. Permissions can be fixed by running the BOINC installer again or with the use of Mac_SA_Secure.sh located in the BOINC command-line download package.

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Thanks!

I think that:

./boinccmd --set_run_mode

is what I want, switching between 'auto' to use the built-in preferences, and 'never' if I want to externally suspend all processing, eg because batteries are not completely full.

Damon

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If it's like the Linux version (highly likely :-), just ./boinccmd on its own will give all the options. I've got lots of scripts to do all sorts of things (e.g. when communications were flaky I had a cron job run two or three times an hour to check for finished jobs to upload them) but some of them rely on other awk or python scripts as well. I also need to use the command line on systems where BOINC won't compile the GUI (boincmgr) due to missing or mismatched libraries.

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