I ran BOINC for years, then could not, because my OS's--Slackware's--OpenSSL 0.9.8 became old. Since Slackware 14 (in September 2012) it has OpenSSL 1.0.1 and higher, which I am pretty sure is stable, because the beta releases were replaced by a plain version 1.0.1 in March 2012. However, even the development version of BOINC seems over a year out of date, as it will not run with any OpenSSL 1.0.1+. How soon is BOINC's OpenSSL going to be updated?

8/12/2013 4:24:09 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.10 for windows_x86_64
8/12/2013 4:24:09 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6

However, why can't you run a program with an older version of OpenSSL? These versions ought to be backward compatible with the same branch, and otherwise, you just add the older library. The main problem usually is that people can't run it because their OS uses an older version than BOINC does, and they can't update to that version (yet/ever).

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Ok; maybe I am wrong and something else is configured wrong... maybe it is my BAM account or something... whatever it is, it seems I cannot connect to any projects.

Actually, this is what I get when I run my boinc start script (that runs it as a non-root/-wheel user):

root@cosmos:~# rc.boinc start
root@cosmos:~# /usr/local/lib64/boinc/boinc: /lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by /usr/local/lib64/boinc/boinc)
/usr/local/lib64/boinc/boinc: /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/local/lib64/boinc/boinc)
/usr/local/lib64/boinc/boinc: /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by /usr/local/lib64/boinc/boinc)
can't connect to local host
19-Aug-2013 21:12:54 [---] No config file found - using defaults

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The main problem, being of course:

can't connect to local host

Does the script use the BOINCCMD tool? Or can you disclose the contents of the script?

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Yes. Sometimes I have commented that out, but it always used to work even with nothing commented out. After I run the script and start BOINC Manager, it will just not connect to my account manager.

#!/bin/sh
# start/stop/restart BOINC

# start BOINC:
boinc_start() {

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/lib/boinc
su user -c /usr/local/lib64/boinc/boinc&
su user -c "/usr/local/lib64/boinc/boinccmd --join_acct_mgr http://boincstats.com/bam/ dchmelik password&"
#su user -c /usr/local/lib64/boinc/boincmgr&
cd

}

# Stop BOINC:
boinc_stop() {
  killall boinc
}

case "$1" in
'start')
  boinc_start
  ;;
'stop')
  boinc_stop
  ;;
*)
  echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart"
esac

I wish I had heard a reply. I figured out what the problem was but forgot what it was, though I am using BOINC most of the time again now.