I download the gz, I un-gz it, I put it into a directory by itself. Then I call it by name. The result looks like this:



2004-06-25 16:21:41 [---] Starting BOINC client version 3.18 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Enter the URL of the project: setiathome.berkeley.edu
You should have already registered with the project
and received an account key by email.
Paste the account key here: *************
2004-06-25 16:22:00 [setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Project prefs: using your defaults
2004-06-25 16:22:00 [setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Host ID not assigned yet
2004-06-25 16:22:00 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2004-06-25 16:22:00 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2004-06-25 16:22:00 [---] GUI RPC bind failed (retval = '-1')
2004-06-25 16:22:00 [---] GUI RPC bind failed (retval = '-1')
2004-06-25 16:22:00 [---] Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
2004-06-25 16:23:02 [---] Benchmark results:
2004-06-25 16:23:02 [---] Number of CPUs: 1
2004-06-25 16:23:02 [---] 745 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2004-06-25 16:23:02 [---] 2230 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2004-06-25 16:23:02 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] Resuming computation and network activity
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08
2004-06-25 16:23:03 [---] GUI RPC request from non-local address 0x78570e08



This last line is repeated many hundreds of times per second until I hit Ctl-C.

Are you running boinview or another 3rd party gui? They may cause this.

HI :)

If you run boincview, you must add this option to your boinc line :

-allow_remote_gui_rpc