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BOINC needs a working directory in which to run. It creates a number of files and subdirectories in whatever directory it is run from, so be careful not to run boinc from an arbitrary directory (such as your home directory).
For a "personal" installation you could create a directory called "boinc" or perhaps ".boinc". (In Unix files and directories with names that begin with "." are not shown be default when you list files, unless you say `ls -a` to also show these "hidden" files.) The command is something like this:
mkdir ~/boinc
For a "daemon" installation you should create a separate user account called "boinc". The home directory of this new user will be the working directory. How you create a new account can vary between Linux installations. On Red Hat or Fedora Core one can use the adduser command:
adduser -m -d /var/lib/boinc boinc
For other Linux distributions or versions of Unix you need to do what it takes to create a new "boinc" user with a separate home directory.
This recommendation I found on net. But I cant use it because , as I said, I am not an "expert" in Linux yet. I am still learning (it is never too late).
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BOINC account
