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FAHCLIENT(8) System Manager's Manual FAHCLIENT(8) NAME fahclient -- service daemon for the Folding@home Client SYNOPSIS fahclient command [args ...] fahclient log fahclient showconfig DESCRIPTION fahclient is an rc(8) daemon for the Folding@home Client. Configure fahclient with the following rc.conf(5) variables: fahclient_enable Toggle to enable fahclient. Default: "NO". fahclient_chdir Working directory of fahclient. Default: "/var/db/fahclient". fahclient_config Configuration file. Default: "/usr/local/etc/fahclient/config.xml". fahclient_donor Donor to attribute work units to. Settings in the configuration file take precedence. Default: "Anonymous". fahclient_extra_flags Extra flags passed to the Folding@home Client af- ter other flags. Default: empty. fahclient_flags Extra flags passed to daemon(8) before any other flags. Default: empty. fahclient_logfile Log file. Takes precedence over settings in the configuration file. Default: "/var/db/fahclient/log.txt". fahclient_team Folding@home team to join and attribute work units to. Settings in the configuration file take precedence. Default: `11743', Team FreeBSD. fahclient_pidfile PID file. Default: "/var/db/fahclient/fahclient.pid". fahclient_user System user to run fahclient as. Default: `fahclient'. fahclient supports the following extra commands: log View fahclient's folding logs. showconfig Show the final configuration of fahclient after all configu- ration files and command-line flags are processed. The Web Dashboard is available at https://v8-4.foldingathome.org/ and http://localhost:7396/ when fahclient is running. Visit the Web Dashboard to connect fahclient to a Folding@home Account and manage folding work. Link fahclient to an existing account with an Account Token. Generate it on the Web Dashboard. Add the Account Token to either the configuration file or specify it a command-line argument to fahclient: sysrc fahclient_extra_flags+=" --account-token=<Account-Token>" Refer to the Folding@home Client's help message for more usage information: /usr/local/bin/fah-client --help FILES /usr/local/bin/fah-client Folding@home Client program invoked by the fahclient daemon. EXAMPLES Example 1: Quick Start Start fahclient by executing the following steps: # Mount linprocfs(5) at /compat/linux/proc: mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc # Mount linsysfs(5) at /compat/linux/proc: mount -t linsysfs linsysfs /compat/linux/sys # Enable fahclient: service fahclient enable # Optionally, set the desired donor name: sysrc fahclient_donor="Anonymous" # Start fahclient: service fahclient start Open the Folding@home Web Dashboard to finish the setup. Add linprocfs(5) and linsysfs(5) entries to fstab(5) to make the setup per- sistent across reboots. SEE ALSO Folding@home v8.4 Client Guide Folding@home FAQ Folding Forum Team FreeBSD Statistics HISTORY Team FreeBSD was founded by Frank Mayhar. AUTHORS The fahclient manual page was written by Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>. CAVEATS The working directory of fahclient must have the execute permissions en- abled to function properly. For example, on a zfs(4) dataset where /var/db/fahclient is located the `exec' property must be set to `on'. FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly June 9, 2026 FAHCLIENT(8)
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