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Message 1802668 - Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 9:35:02 UTC

Hi

I need to repurpose a system which is running set@home under boing. I want to allow all the current work units to complete before shutting down the system. How do I do this please?

I've searched this forum with various search strings but have not turned up anything relevant.

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Message 1802669 - Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 9:42:57 UTC - in response to Message 1802668.  

In BOINC Manager, under the Projects tab, select your project (or all of them), then click on the No New Tasks button.
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Message 1802671 - Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 10:21:55 UTC - in response to Message 1802669.  

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately this running on a Raspberry Pi 3 and I seem to remember that it was a pig to build boincmgr so I don't have that facility. Is there any CLI way of doing this? Presumably the No New Tasks button will modify a script or config file somewhere.

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Message 1802693 - Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 14:02:50 UTC - in response to Message 1802671.  

BOINCCMD is the CLI tool to use, not sure if you have it in your custom build.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool

BOINCCMD --project URL operation

e.g.

BOINCCMD --project setiathome.berkeley.edu NoMoreWork

Repeat for each project.
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Message 1802729 - Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 17:02:38 UTC - in response to Message 1802693.  

Thanks OzzFan. That worked but I had to change the command to nomorework i.e. no capitals.

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Message 1802765 - Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 20:00:08 UTC - in response to Message 1802729.  

Interesting. The original documentation doesn't have capitals, but most command line arguments are not case sensitive unless otherwise specified. Thanks for the feedback.
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