Ok, I've lost my account key and am trying to retreive it. According to the other posts in this forum running the following command should retrieve it

boinc_cmd --lookup_account http://setiathome.berkeley.edu <email> <password>

For me the only thing that I get is

retval: 0

I'm running boinc 5.8.15 on Gentoo without X. What am I doing wrong.

Wayne

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That looks like the completion code.

Have you got boinccmd output being directed to an stdout.txt somewhere? If you have, likely the information is in that output file.

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SL

No, I'm not redirecting the output, the command that I am typing is exactly what is shown in my original message (obviously substituting the relevant details for the <email> and <password> entries).

After the --lookup_account you need to do a --lookup_account_poll. This is slightly odd but with the way boinc is set up it kind of makes sense. the --lookup_account command just sends a command to the core client to do an account lookup but it won't block and wait for a response. Hence you have to wait for the operation to complete and then do a --lookup_account_poll to get the authenticator.

Also the gentoo package is quite old. I've been bugging the maintainer to update for a while but apparently he is too busy. Feel free to check out the bug report on it. They have some overlays you can use. Hmm maybe I should offer to maintain it...

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Toby,

Thanks for the tip. When I do the --lookup_account_poll I get the following response....

error_num: -136
authenticator:

Any ideas?

Thanks again
Wayne

I got the same error number when I mistyped my email address. According to this that error number indicates that a record wasn't found in the database. Are you sure you are using the same email and password as you do to log in to these forums?

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Toby,

Re ran the commands and everything worked fine this time.

Many thanks for your help.

Cheers
Wayne