RickH is correct, there is a GUI for Linux BOINC but you may not be running X . You can do anything from the command line that you can do with the GUI, I think, by using the appropriate switches/parms.

You have referred to faah0371_d203n878_x1hpv_01_1 as a project. Actually we call that a Work Unit or WU. The "result" referred to in the message you got from BOINC is the file containing the results of computing the WU. Project refers to a collection of thousands of WUs related to 1 research goal. Right now WCG has 2 projects, the Fight Aids at Home project and the Human Proteome Folding project (FAAH and HPF).

Abort your WU. It has certainly been assigned to someone else. Don't worry about it, happens all the time.

Your WU is so far past due date it may not appear in your records anymore. Normally, you can see the status of any WU assigned to you by logging in here at WCG website. Go MyGrid->Device Manager->Results Status to see a list of your WUs and a few details on each WU. Click on a WU in the list and a window pops up showing more detail on that WU. There you will see that the WU has been sent to at least 3 hosts. The copy sent to you is orange highlighted. They send each WU to 3 hosts and compare the 3 results returned. If a host does not return a result within 7 days then they send the WU to a 4th host. When they get 3 results that match (a quorum of 3) they declare it valid.

If you abort the overdue WU then BOINC should automatically retrieve another WU for you. If it does then you will be able to track the progress of the WU as I described above. If you have time, check in every 6 hrs. for a few days and watch how the info changes on the status pages. You'll get the hang of it fairly quick.

I am a recovering Windows luser who has almost finished converting over to Linux. I did have BOINC with GUI working on Linux a month ago but I broke it and haven't bothered to fix it yet. I hope the above info pertaining to Linux is correct and trust someone else will correct any mistakes and fill in any blanks.

Thanks for all your helps. I also get some basic understandings on how this works -- no wonder I have run so much time on my two computers but only got 3 results: most of them were not credited since I ran them on and off.

No pain, no gain. So I went through the tutorial at
http://www.spy-hill.net/~myers/help/boinc/unix.html#start
And confirm that running GUI on Linux is a piece of cake. I also make boinc a cron job as suggested in the tutorial -- yes, my linux box has no monitor attached. I have to use either VNC or some X server.

The only peice of confusion in that tutorial (or in the boincmgr program) is about how to initialize. Since boinc is run as a cron job as user "boinc" (suggested in the tutorial), "root" does not need to set password for the user boinc. Then I could not "Select Computer" I want to admin. So I have to create "boinc" as a regular user and log in as "boinc" to run boincmgr.

The program boincmgr seems having a bug here. Once I "Select Computer ..." in the menu, I am always prompted for a password unless I run boincmgr as the user who runs boinc client. Actually, according to "boinc --help", there is no way I can set up a password for boinc client at all. Then which password should I supply? While I ran boincmgr as another user, I tried to type in the password of user "boinc" to "Select Computer..." but I got denied. If I cannot even run boincmgr as a user other than the user running boinc client, how can I remotely admin boinc client using boincmgr?