**** To enable start/stop of the seti@home client, please run "setiathome" as your login name. If you installed "setiathome" by ports or package, add, change or uncomment the seti_user variable in %%LOCALBASE%%/etc/rc.setiathome.conf (or %%LOCALBASE%%/etc/setiathome.conf depending on the version currently installed on your computer) seti_user=nobody ^^^^^^ to your login name before setting up working directory, such as : seti_user= If you already done this as nobody, do %%LOCALBASE%%/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh stop chown -Rh /var/db/setiathome %%LOCALBASE%%/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh start