Setting up a scheduling server

The BOINC scheduling server runs as a CGI or fast CGI program under Apache or similar web server. It has been tested on Linux and Solaris. The host must have access to the BOINC database.

The scheduling server uses an auxiliary program called "feeder"; the two programs communicate through a shared-memory segment.

The scheduling server and feeder programs are compiled by typing "configure" and "make" in the sched/ directory. Prior to doing this, you must define the following environment variables:

setenv BOINC_DB_NAME        boinc_barry
setenv BOINC_DB_PASSWD
setenv BOINC_SHMEM_KEY      0xdabacafe
setenv BOINC_KEY_DIR        /users/david/boinc_server/keys

BOINC_DB_NAME and BOINC_DB_PASSWORD are the name and password of the BOINC database.

BOINC_SHMEM_KEY is the identifier of the shared-memory segment; it is an arbitrary 32-bit quantity, but must be unique among different BOINC servers sharing a single host.

BOINC_KEY_DIR is the directory containing the file upload authentication private key.

If any of these variables changes, you must do a "make clean; make" in the sched directory.

You must modify your Apache config file to allow execution of the scheduling server. For example:

ScriptAlias /boinc-cgi/ "/users/barry/cgi/"

<Directory "/users/barry/cgi/">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>