web/control does not show any activity on system-d-less OS

[nada391]

Hello ,

i have several computer running OS Linux without system-d.

when on those go to

https://v8-4.foldingathome.org/machines


there is shown the correct count of "machines"
however GPU and CPU is showing 0 and no folding activity, although it is folding as shown on other pc.

why is that so?


https://ibb.co/LDqbqVQz

[calxalot]

You will need to build 8.4.9 yourself on a machine without systemd.

https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-cl ... /README.md

The installer package won’t work either because it assumes systemd.

[nada391]

thanks, issue is that i don't have the package installed ,
but am logged into the browser with correct credentials and just want to consult the progress.

do you say i need to install the fahclient in order to be able to correctly retrieve the webdata?

on another computer (with kubuntu, reliant on system-d) , which also has the fahclient not installed, i am correctly able to retrieve the progress-data via webbrowser.

[calxalot]

You don’t need to install. You just need to have the client running with your account-token in the config.xml in the current working directory of the client.

[calxalot]

I don’t think the downloaded client will run without the linked systemd libs.

[Nicolas_orleans]

You don't need systemd with the tarball

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wget https://download.foldingathome.org/releases/public/fah-client/debian-10-64bit/release/fah-client_8.4.9-64bit-release.tar.bz2
tar xf fah-client_8.4.9-64bit-release.tar.bz2
cd fah-client_8.4.9-64bit-release
./fah-client --log=/var/log/fah-client/log.txt --log-rotate-dir=/var/log/fah-client/ --account-token=YOURACCOUNTTOKEN --machine-name="YOURRIGNAME" --user=YOURUSERNAME --team=YOURTEAMNUMBER --passkey=YOURPASSKEY

And it will run from the terminal, without being installed as a service... If I remember correctly you don't even need to be a sudoer with the tarball install.

[calxalot]

Have you tested the tarball without systemd?
My understanding is that the client is hard linked to one or two libs, such as libsystemd-login

[Nicolas_orleans]

It works on vast.ai that has no systemd available (to my knowledge). Let's see if it works for nada391...