My laptop moves fairly fluidly between on-line and off-line environments. My BOINC understandably backs off and progressively increases the time between connection attempts when I'm off line. However, if I've reconnected to the Internet and I want to re-start BOINC and force a server connection ( to upload completed WU's and download new ones) I can't seem to do it. I've tried all the various flags listed when you run with the "-help" flag and I still get BOINC stubbornly insisting that it's going to wait 2 or more days before connecting again. When I "top -u" in another terminal window I see that BOINC is only taking up a couple of CPU %, meaning (presumably) that I've run out of WU's and BOINC is just idling until I can get some more.

Yes, I've made sure that the BOINC mothership is active- all my other terminals are sucessfully contacting BOINC headquarters and receiving WU's right now.

Is there a flag that is supposed to over-ride this timeout? Thanks.

Forgive me in advance, but have you checked if you are attached to the correct project URL?
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu

./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin -show_projects

./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin -attach_project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu

Here's a better client software option for Mac users.
boinc 3.20 - http://members.dslextreme.com/~readerforum/forum_team/boinc.html

Yes, I'm attached to the right project URL. Even if I reboot and then restart BOINC in a terminal window a substantial delay is forshadowed. Here's what I'm getting:

2004-07-14 00:26:46 [---] Starting BOINC client version 3.18 for powerpc-apple-darwin
2004-07-14 00:26:46 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-07-14 00:26:46 [SETI@home] Host ID is 13378
2004-07-14 00:26:46 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2004-06-25 12:29:33)
2004-07-14 00:26:46 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-07-14 00:26:46 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 days, 4 hours, 39 minutes, and 52 seconds

So what I'm asking is: how can I force a server connection attempt without waiting (in this case) over a day?

Still no answer on this question. Forgive me for bumping the thread.

Still no answer on this question. Forgive me for bumping the thread.