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NAME

boinccmd - The command line interface to the BOINC client.

SYNOPSIS


boinccmd
[--host hostname[:port]] [--passwd passwd] {command}

boinccmd
[-hV]

Notice that the order of the options is important. The --host and --passwd options must precede any command.

DESCRIPTION

The BOINC command tool (boinccmd) provides a command line interface to control a running BOINC client (boinc(1)). It communicates with a running client using port 31416 over TCP/IP. It can only connect to one client at a time.

OPTIONS

Connect to the host hostname. The default host is localhost.
Use passwd as password for RPC authentication. If the current working directory contains a file gui_rpc_auth.cfg, boinccmd will read the password from this file.
Show a help message and all commands.
Show the version of the program.

COMMANDS

ACCOUNT QUERY AND ATTACH

Look up account and print account key.
Create account with the given email address, password, and user name.
Attach to an account using the project URL and authenticator (sent via email after --create_account was successful).
Attach to an account manager (or do RPC if already attached). The account has to be created via the account manager website.
Detach from the current account manager.

STATE QUERIES

Show complete client state.
Show only current CPU, GPU and network modes.
Show all tasks of the client (in progress, waiting and completed only). Tasks that where reported to the project server are not shown here.
Show status of projects and active tasks.
Show all current file transfers.
Show status of all projects.
Show disk usage of all projects.
Get proxy settings.
Show messages with sequence numbers beyond seqno.
Show largest message sequence number.
Show project notices with sequence numbers beyond seqno.
Show system information about the host where the BOINC client is running.
Show network traffic history of the BOINC client.

CONTROL OPERATIONS

Do operation on a task.
Temporarily stop work on task.
Allow work on task.
Permanently stop work on task.
Do operation on a project, identified by its master URL.
Delete current tasks, applications and other files from this project, request new tasks.
Delete current tasks applications and other files from this project, don't request any new tasks.
Contact project scheduling server.
Stop all tasks for project.
Resume tasks for project.
Finish all downloaded tasks but don't get more.
Undo nomorework.
Detach project after all tasks are finished.
Undo detach_when_done.
Do operation on a file transfer.
Retry file transfer.
Permanently abort file transfer.
Set run mode (applies to CPU and GPU).
Do work always.
Do work only when allowed by preferences.
Don't do work.

If duration is zero or absent, this mode is permanent. Otherwise, after duration seconds elapse, revert to last permanent mode.

Set network mode. Like --set_run_mode but applies to network transfers only.
Set GPU mode. Like --set_run_mode but applies to GPU processing only.
Set proxy settings. All fields are mandatory.
Run CPU benchmarks.
Tell the client to read the global_prefs_override.xml file and incorporate any global preferences indicated there.
Tell the client to quit.
Tell the client to reread the configuration file (cc_config.xml).
Fetch configuration of project located at URL.
Tell the client to retry deferred network communication.

SEE ALSO

boinc(1), boincmgr(1)


⟨https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool⟩

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007-2020 University of California.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

03 February 2020