[Debian Wiki] Update of "BOINC/ServerGuide" by SteffenMoeller

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The "BOINC/ServerGuide" page has been changed by SteffenMoeller:
http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC/ServerGuide?action=diff&rev1=102&rev2=103

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New intro.

  #pragma keywords BOINC, Grid Computing, Volunteer Computing, Open Source, Debian
  #pragma description Tutorial for preparing a Debian-based server instance for a BOINC project.
  
+ = Intro =
+ 
- This tutorial will help you to create and maintain a BOINC project with Debian. We still (8/2011) moving paragraphs back and forth, but by following the instructions you will have a working project. How exactly this page will evolve depends on you all who you read this. We do not aim at substituting the BOINC [[http://boinc.berkeley.edu/email_lists.php|mailing lists]] or the [[http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki|Wiki]], but rather attempt giving a red line to follow through it all. 
+ This tutorial will help you to create and maintain a BOINC project with Debian. We are still (8/2011) moving paragraphs back and forth, but by following the instructions you will have a working project. How exactly this page will evolve depends on you all who you read this. We do not aim at substituting the BOINC [[http://boinc.berkeley.edu/email_lists.php|mailing lists]] or the [[http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki|Wiki]], but rather attempt giving a red line to follow through it all. 
  
  <<TableOfContents(2)>>
  
+ The BOINC source tree comes with a ''BOINC server''. That ''server'' however does not serve by itself but ''installs the skeleton'' for the real server. Consequently, the Debian package is named ''boinc-server-maker'', allowing for the creation of an arbitrary number of truly serving BOINC servers for every machine.
- To see more info about how to install and config BOINC server, please look at [[http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectMain|BOINC project wiki]] and
- the "See also" section on this page.
- 
- = Preparations =
- 
- The BOINC server as compiled from the BOINC sources does not perform directly. That BOINC server is "only" the skeleton for the real server. With one BOINC server installation as coined by the BOINC developers, one can create many BOINC project servers as seen by regular users of the boinc client who then subscribe to one or multiple of such projects. For that reason, the Debian package is named no longer "boinc-server" but now presents itself as "boinc-server-maker".
  
  In the following, please distinguish
   1. the folder to which the files of the BOINC server templates install ('/usr/share/boinc-server')
   1. the name of the Debian package providing those files ('boinc-server-maker')
   1. the location of your very own project ('you/name/it')
  
- The preparation from the Debian sources is not too different from a preparation from
- the original source tree. Debian should just shorten the process to a first success.
+ The preparation from the Debian sources is not too different from a preparation from the original source tree. Debian should just shorten the process to a first success. The first version of these instructions sometimes presents side-by-side the "original BOINC textbook" instructions and the Debian way of achieving the same. This renders these instructions as generic and as educational as possible. Violations to that principle please report to us.
+ 
+ = Preparations =
  
  == Hardware ==