On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:36 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi Rick and Others; > > At the risk of appearing extremely dumb; I have put off diving into > security matters like iptables. When the time comes, after looking at > 'man iptables', it is obviously going to take several days, weeks > months. So... > > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 13:21 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 00:57 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > > > Just downloaded and installed boinc. I keep getting the error message > > > "BOINC Manager is not able to connect to a BOINC client. > > > Would you like to try to connect again?" > > > > > > I am flumexed. It ran without problems under FC6. I have tried > > > everything I can think of to trace back the problem. Could it be a > > > SElinux problem? There are no SELinux trouble shooter warnings. > > > > > > I installed it from root into a folder in user but all the permissions > > > look right? Boinc_mgr opens but remains a sleeping process while it > > > tries to connect. > > > > > > I am running F7. All suggestions warmly received. > > > > Sure your firewall is permitting it? Try turning off iptables and > > running it. If it works, put a rule in that opens the port. > > > How do I turn off iptables in order to try running boinc? If it works, > I suppose I will have to climb into iptables before I planned to so that > I can write a rule. > -- > Regards Bill If you are using the default iptables rules, you shouldn't need to do that...but in case: run `service iptables stop` as root or `sudo /sbin/service iptables stop` if you have sudo set up. --Tim
