Where is boinccmd located in macos? I looked in "/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data", but it's not there. FWIW, I have 8.2.5 installed.

Thanks!

It will be in the applications directory, so check */Applications/

In reply to Jord's message of 4 Sep 2025:

It will be in the applications directory, so check */Applications/

Nope. BOINCmanager is there, but not boinccmd. I also looked under BOINCmanager (Show Package Contents), and it's not there either.

Nope. BOINCmanager is there, but not boinccmd. I also looked under BOINCmanager (Show Package Contents), and it's not there either.

Is it possible that boinccmd is not installed? Also given that MacOS is based on Unix, isn't there a command that should find the file assuming it is there?

In reply to Dave's message of 4 Sep 2025:

Nope. BOINCmanager is there, but not boinccmd. I also looked under BOINCmanager (Show Package Contents), and it's not there either.

Is it possible that boinccmd is not installed? Also given that MacOS is based on Unix, isn't there a command that should find the file assuming it is there?

Finder would find it, if it were there.

I guess the real question is, when installing the main GUI version, does it not also install the command line stuff? And if not, why not?

I see that there is also a command line version I could install, which I assumed is just the command line stuff, without the GUI stuff. But then what happens if I already have the GUI installed? Is it going to mess up something? Do I have to uninstall the GUI version first? The wiki doesn't talk about any of this at all.

I am lost now, having never used a Mac. I know even less about it than I do about Windows having only got it in a VM to run boinc tasks that don't have a Linux version.

I guess the real question is, when installing the main GUI version, does it not also install the command line stuff? And if not, why not?

That's probably down to those that built the Mac distribution package, they may have decided that no Mac user would ever want to use the command line so there was no point in adding such to the package

This is what I found:

Standard Installation: If you installed the BOINC Manager with the GUI installer, the command-line tool will likely be in the application's contents. Navigate to your Applications folder and find "BOINC.app".
Open the package contents: Right-click on "BOINC.app" and select "Show Package Contents".
Find the executable: Look inside Contents/Resources/boinccmd within the package to find the boinccmd executable.

Extract the PKG: You can extract the command-line package from the GUI installer's .pkg file to get the boinccmd executable.
Install the CLI version: If you're using the headless client, you might have installed it as part of the command-line version, which would place boinccmd in the standard location for your system's command-line tools.

In reply to Jord's message of 5 Sep 2025:

This is what I found:

Standard Installation: If you installed the BOINC Manager with the GUI installer, the command-line tool will likely be in the application's contents. Navigate to your Applications folder and find "BOINC.app".
Open the package contents: Right-click on "BOINC.app" and select "Show Package Contents".
Find the executable: Look inside Contents/Resources/boinccmd within the package to find the boinccmd executable.

Extract the PKG: You can extract the command-line package from the GUI installer's .pkg file to get the boinccmd executable.
Install the CLI version: If you're using the headless client, you might have installed it as part of the command-line version, which would place boinccmd in the standard location for your system's command-line tools.

Thanks Jord.

boinccmd is definitely NOT in the BOINC.app package contents. I just now double checked. I don't know the source of what you posted, but it is not correct. At least not with 8.2.5 or 7.24.4.

For the second part, I am not sure what that means exactly. The installer gives no options about what to install, during the installation process.

The source was Gemini, or whatever the AI of Google search is...