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What do you do with your idle servers? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Not sure if this is the right place to ask the question, but there doesn't seem to be an "askgeeks" or something.

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[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need the GUI, the client does all the work. I use a Debian container, so just sudo apt-get install boinc-client.

Once that's installed, you go to the project (in my case, World Grid) and setup your account. As part of that, it will give you a URL and account key. Then back on your server, you use the boinccmd to --project_attach the URL and key.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

that's a better description than their documentation honestly, ty